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Dewey Decimal Number: 823.8 EAN: 9781885865489 ISBN: 1885865481 Label: Circlet Press Manufacturer: Circlet Press Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 384 Publication Date: 2004-03 Publisher: Circlet Press Studio: Circlet Press Editorial Review: Book Description: This omnibus volume combines examples of the best of Victorian erotica, including * The English Governess * The Pearl * The Autobiography of a Flea * Man With A Maid, the popular Victorian classic which has sold hundreds of thousands of volumes in the 80 years since it first appeared Man With A Maid tells the story of Jack, a Victorian gentleman, who plots sweet revenge on the fiancee who jilts him, not to mention her maid, a close friend, and his rival's mother-in-law. Setting up residence in the 'Snuggery,' once the soundproof ''mad room'' of an insane asylum, he subjects Alice and the rest of his female company to bondage and orgiastic sexuality, dealing out both pleasure and pain in exacting revenge. Related Items:      see moreAverage Rating:
 Rating:  - Man with a Maid is okthe story is ok, especially the first 20 pages, after that it is to predictable. Rating:  - An old favoriteI found this on my cousin's bookshelf with I was but a wee thing, stole it. A classic of Victorian erotica, it's the story of Jack who gets jilted by his fiancee and takes revenge on her, her maid, and others in a lovingly described soundproofed room with equisite details of torture and pleasure. Cleis Press is keeping this old classic in print! Rating: - 13 pieces of Victorian varietyIt is a common stereotype that Victorian [...] was all caning, servants, and beaten children. Granted those are common themes but this collection shows more variety than that. We find old men and rejected men stealing innocence and women who have cast aside the sexual mores of their time to become preedators themselves. There are some hierarchical situations but most of the action takes place between social and age peers. I've removed one star from my rating because there are two important things missing from this book. The first are simple introductions to the pieces; even if we don't know the author we can know when it written and which country it was created in. Victorianism was fairly wide=spread for several decades but how it played out varied. Second the pieces need to be identified when they are only sections from a larger work or a series of stories. This would enable those who find the writting exciting to find other Victorian porn. Rating: - It's goodI am actually in the middle of reading it. I have read Man With a Maid. There are 2 volumes: The Tradgey(sp?)and The Comedies. The tragedy I enjoyed musch more than the comedies. The tradgy was about the main character, jack, de-virginising Alice, very interesting... However, found the comedies not very interesting(esp. for a hetro-sexual woman). It's just threesome stuff, with jack, alice, and other girls, each one by one. I just wanted to be the first one to post :) Will keep you posted on other books. |
DVD features
Yes, the unrated edition of The Dukes of Hazzard has nudity... but no, it's not of Jessica Simpson, but topless sorority girls. There are also two sets--"PG-13" and "unrated"--of deleted scenes and bloopers. The four minutes of unrated deleted scenes (supplementing the 25 minutes of "PG-13" deleted scenes) include more sorority girls and a menage à trois for Johnny Knoxville . The five minutes of unrated bloopers (the same amount as the "PG-13" bloopers) feature a few more girls but mostly bad language. Featurettes discuss the Daisy Duke short shorts (and show how you can make your own), car stunts, and the making of the movie (narrated by a cast member of the original TV series). --David Horiuchi
