Hidden Gems

(The Best of The Pearl, a Journal of Voluptuous Reading.)

Anonymous

The infamous Victorian monthly magazine The Pearl was published in London from July 1879 to December 1880 and was subsequently shut down by the authorities for publishing obscene literature.

Each issue was devoted to erotic serials featuring sex in high society, incest and flagellation, interspersed with ribald parodies, rude poems and smutty limericks

This selection (over 300 pages) includes the best of The Pearl and is drawn from all of its original 18 issues. Hidden Gems is a fascinating look at the secret obsessions behind the Puritan’s mask.

Step inside and enjoy this raunchy romp through the Victorian underground.

Title: Hidden Gems

Author: Anonymous

Introduction: William Hamilton

ISBN-10: 0692450165

ISBN-13: 978-0692450161

Format: Paperback

Publisher: Black Scat Books

Pages: 334

Language: English

Item Weight: 15.2 ounces

Dimensions: 5.06 x 0.84 x 7.81 inches Book details (publisher): Hidden Gems

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Travels To Merryland

by Roger Pheuquewell, Esq.

(Containing a Topographical, Geographical and Natural History of that Country.)

Imagine if Christopher Columbus, Marco Polo, Sir Richard Burton, Francis Drake, James Cook or Walter Raleigh had written in their travel accounts about the erotic landscapes they traversed. Well, that’s what the anonymous intrepid explorer has done with Travels to Merryland.

This satirical travelogue was first published in England 1740 and with Swiftian wit, it describes the female sexual anatomy as a metaphor of geography and natural history. This lovely guidebook is a must-have for the armchair adventurer, as well as timid explorers who dream of female parts unknown. Students of natural history and budding geographers will discover many hidden delights within these pages.

***This edition also includes a never-before-published map of the country***

 

Product details:

Title: Travels to Merryland

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: New Urge / Black Scat Books

Language: English

Format: Paperback

Pages: 75

ISBN-10: 1735764647

ISBN-13: 978-1735764641

Item Weight: 3.52 ounces

Dimensions: 4 x 0.19 x 6 inches

Book details and synopsis (publisher): Journey to parts unknown

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Travels to Merryland

by Roger Pheuquewell, Esq.

(Containing a Topographical, Geographical and Natural History of that Country.)

From Their Lips to His Ear

Denis Diderot

Translated by Anonymous

Selected by Lawrence Hamilton

Lawrence Hamilton has selected several spicy excerpts from an anonymous English translation of Denis Diderot‘s satiric libertine novel, Les Bijoux Indiscrets (The Indiscreet Jewels), first published in 1749). This edition, from New Urge is entitled From Their Lips to His Ear, is #6 in the Pocket Erotica series.

Denis Diderot was a highly celebrated 18th century French philosopher and editor of the groundbreaking Encyclopédie. In 1748, in need of money, he wrote a scandalous and satiric libertine allegory – Les Bijoux Indiscrets – whose hero, a sultan, is in possession of a magic ring. When aimed at female genitals, this ring prompts the private parts to speak — revealing the woman’s deepest sexual desires, experiences, and indiscretions.

In this precursor to The Vagina Monologues, the women  are portrayed  as  powerful beings through their liberated  ideas and sexuality.

Product details:

Title: From Their Lips to His Ear

Author: Denis Diderot

Translator: Anonymous

Publisher: New Urge / Black Scat Books

Language: English

Format: Paperback ‎ 

Pages: 71

ISBN-10: 1735615919

ISBN-13: 978-1735615912

Dimensions: 10.16 x 0.46 x 15.24 cm

Weight: 3.52 ounces

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Le Château du Comte by Hélène Lavelle

Translated from the French by Valéry Soers.

In 2020, New Urge Editions published Hélène Lavelle‘s controversial erotic novel, The Rites of Ecstasy. Today, we are pleased to announce its sequel, Le Château du Comte – translated from the French by Valéry Soers.

Synopsis: Summoned back to the Domain, Gabrielle surrenders to the demands of the Vicomtesse, the Comte, and Lady Isabella. Much more than a sequel to The Rites of Ecstasy, this novel takes us beyond the introspective feminine dreaminess of La Maison to a more bracing, hallucinatory, wild and strange terrain of its own – the culmination and climax of ‘the Great Work’ on Gabrielle’s heart, soul, mind and body.

Le Château du Comte is a story of dramatic and erotic power – an immersion in another world – exploring the farther shores of female desire, love, hate and friendship, through extremes of pleasure and pain to the heights of the Sublime.

Product details:

Title: Le Château du Comte
Author: Hélène Lavelle
Translated from the French by Valéry Soers

ISBN: 979-8985999648

ASIN: ‎ B0B6792HVH

Publisher: ‎ New Urge / Black Scat Books

Publication date: July 11, 2022)

Language: ‎ English

Format: Paperback ‏

Pages: ‎ 316

Item Weight: ‎ 1.25 pounds

Dimensions: ‎ 6.14 x 0.79 x 9.21 inches

Book details (publisher): Le Château du Comte

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Le Château du Comte is a sequel to The Rites of Ecstasy, details of which can be found here: The Rites of Ecstasy.

Her Three Daughters by Pierre Louÿs

Translated into modern English by R J Dent

Her Three Daughters by Pierre Louÿs, translated from the French into modern English by R J Dent, published by New Urge, is now available.

Synopsis: A young man moves into a new apartment and receives an advanced education in the permutations of sex from a mother and her three—surprisingly well-educated—daughters. Part memoir, part confession, Her Three Daughters is Pierre Louÿs at his erotic best.

“Louÿs’s jolly saga of sexual insatiability…is one of the handful of erotic works that achieve true literary status.” — Susan Sontag

“Among all Pierre Louÿs’s books, this is undoubtedly my favourite, the most moving, most uplifting and sometimes the most terrifying, the purest, the least artificial and the most modern. A masterpiece.” —André Pieyre de Mandiargues

“Amazing! It’s erotica, but high-quality erotica!” — Jean d’Ormesson

“One of the most moving books ever written on the fatality of desires.” —Annie Le Brun

“Here, without question, is Pierre Louÿs’ erotic masterpiece. The strength of the novel does not come from its eventual biographical value, but from the constant transgression that manifests itself within it—containing all the erotic themes dear to the writer, elevated to a singular power. We also find here the key qualities of Louÿs’ style: the liveliness of the dialogue, the precision of the language, the irony, the relentlessness with which certain obscene words are constantly repeated. This scandalous book constitutes a total profanation and derision of the bourgeois universe to which the author belonged.” —Jean-Paul Goujon

Book details:

Title: Her Three Daughters

Author: Pierre Louÿs

Translator: R J Dent

Language: English

Publisher: New Urge

Publication Date: February 13, 2023

ISBN: 979-8986922478

Format: Paperback

Pages: 340

Dimensions: 12.85 cm x 2.16 cm x 19.84 cm (5.06 inches x 0.85 inches x 7.81 inches)

Weight: 15.5 ounces (439.41 grams)

Book details (publisher): https://blackscatbooks.com/2023/02/26/all-in-the-family/

Book details (translator): http://www.rjdent.com/her-three-daughters/

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Translator’s website: www.rjdent.com

The Rites of Ecstasy by Hélène Lavelle

Translated from the French by Valéry Soers

In the tradition of Decadent literature, spiced with Gothic, this provocative novel takes the reader on a voyage through dream, reverie, fantasy, memory and imagination – recounting the raptures and the initiation tortures of a young woman, Gabrielle, by the Vicomtesse, the Comte and their entourage in The Domain.

Sexually explicit without being crude, The Rites of Ecstasy is the story of a woman whose libido and personality lead her to increasingly submissive behaviour – allowing herself to be sexually used, violently beaten, and physically mutilated, which ultimately leads her to discover who – and what – she really is. As Gabrielle’s submission deepens and becomes more extreme, the novel simultaneously deepens its thematic explorations of the relationship between surrender and freedom, the nature and the demands of love, and the transcendent aspects of sexual desire.

A sublime novel that explores love, subservience, cruelty and dominance. The Rites of Ecstasy is a deeply erotic literary work, and as such, Hélène Lavelle’s novel is seductive and dangerous.

This is a novel for connoisseurs of erotic literature, an adult book in every sense, an interesting and intelligent novel of ideas, expressed with eloquence, elegance and wit; beautifully written by Hélène Lavelle, and lucidly translated into sophisticated English by Valéry Soers.

“This modern classic deserves to be ranked alongside the great French erotic masterpieces, Story of O and The Image , and very few others. Not for the faint-hearted or the narrow-minded, this story of love, excess, degradation, cruelty, tenderness and beauty is for all women whose fantasies and desires embrace the intensely erotic.” — Dawn Avril Fitzroy

Title: The Rites of Ecstasy

Author: Hélène Lavelle

Translator: Valéry Soers

Publisher: New Urge Editions

ISBN-10: 1735615900

ISBN-13: 978-1735615905

Format: Paperback

Pages: 238

Language: English

Weight: 15.5 ounces (439.41 grams)

Dimensions: 6.14 x 0.6 x 9.21 inches (15.6 x 1.52 x 23.39 cm)

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Hélène Lavelle has also written Le Château du Comte, which is a sequel to The Rites of Ecstasy. Details of Le Château du Comte are available here: Le Château du Comte

Jean-Fucque by Louis Aragon

Adapted from the French by R J Dent

Inspired by Louis Aragon’s obscure surrealist text, R J Dent’s 21st century adaptation of Aragon’s absurdist tale recounts the adventures of Jean-Fucque (Le Cocque), a large, disembodied penis who had a series of exploits and encounters around Paris.

This English rendition recounts Jean-Fucque’s adventures on the Metro, including his satisfactory encounters with several female passengers, as well as details of his small room in a hotel frequented by prostitutes, and an explanation as to why Jean-Fucque buys a hat.

Jean-Fucque is No. 22 in the Pocket Erotica series.

Product details:

Publisher: ‎New Urge Editions / Pocket Erotica

Publication Date: November 24, 2021
Language: ‎English
Format: Paperback

Pages: 131
ISBN-10: ‎1737943042
ISBN-13: ‎978-1737943044
Item Weight: ‎5 ounces (141.74 grams)
Dimensions: ‎4 x 0.33 x 6 inches (10.16 x 0.84 x 15.24 cm)

The Publisher’s description of the book (with links) is here: https://blackscatbooks.com/2021/11/25/watch-out-here-comes-jean-fucque/

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Details of R J Dent’s books, events, news, forthcoming, etc, at http://www.rjdent.com/

Selected Erotic Poems by Charles Baudelaire

Translated into English by R J Dent

Charles Baudelaire’s decadent erotic poems caused a scandal when they first appeared in 1857. Both author and publisher were prosecuted for unveiling works that were ‘an insult to public decency’, and six poems in the collection were suppressed.

These so-called indecent works (banned in France until 1949) were: Lesbos; Condemned Women: Delphine and Hippolyta; Lethe; To One Who Is Too Happy; Jewels; and The Metamorphosis of the Vampire— and all are included in this Pocket Erotica edition, plus 20 more.

Selected Erotic Poems

Charles Baudelaire

Translated from the French by R J Dent

Pocket Erotica No. 21, New Urge Editions

ISBN 978-1737943037

Format: Paperback chapbook

Pages: 64

Dimensions: 4 x 0.16 x 6 inches

Weight: 3.2 ounces

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Translator’s website: www.rjdent.com