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The 20th century
20th century erotic fiction includes such classics of
the genre as: Suburban Souls (1901), published by
Carrington and possibly written by him also; The
Confessions of Nemesis Hunt (issued in three volumes
1902, 1903, 1906), probably by George Reginald
Bacchus, printed by Duringe of Paris for Leonard
Smithers in London; Josephine Mutzenbacher (1906) by
Felix Salten; Sadopaideia (1907) by Anon (possibly
Algernon Charles Swinburne);[68] Les Mémoires d'un jeune
Don Juan (1907) and the somewhat disturbing Les onze
mille verges (1907) by Guillaume Apollinaire;The Way of a Man with a Maid (1908) and A Weekend
Visit by Anon; Pleasure Bound Afloat (1908), Pleasure
Bound Ashore (1909) and Maudie (1909) by Anon (probably
George Reginald Bacchus); Manuel de civilité pour les
petites filles à l'usage des maisons d'éducation (1917)
and Trois filles de leur mère (1926) by Pierre Louys;
Story of the Eye (1928) by Georges Bataille; Tropic of
Cancer (1934) and Tropic of Capricorn (1938) by Henry
Miller; The Story of O (1954) by Pauline Réage; Helen
and Desire (1954) and Thongs (1955) by Alexander Trocchi;
Ada, or Ardor (1969) by Vladimir Nabokov; Journal
(1966), Delta of Venus (1978) and Little Birds
(1979) by Anaïs Nin and The Bicycle Rider
(1985) by Guy Davenport.
Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is often described as an
erotic novel, but other critics view it more as a
literary drama with elements of eroticism.
Lolita and The Story of O were published by Olympia
Press, a Paris-based publisher, launched in 1953 by
Maurice Girodias as a rebadged version of the Obelisk
Press he inherited from his father Jack Kahane. It
published a mix of erotic fiction and avant-garde
literary works. The Girls of Radcliff Hall is a roman à
clef novel in the form of a lesbian girls' school story
written in the 1930s by the British composer and
bon-vivant Gerald Berners, the 14th Lord Berners, under
the pseudonym "Adela Quebec", published and distributed
privately in 1932
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