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Title: Man With a Maid: And Other Victorian Stories
ISBN: 1885865481
Author:
Anonymous
Publicate Date: 2004-03
Publish: 2004-03
List Price: $14.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.0
Format: Paperback
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1: Man with a Maid is ok
the story is ok, especially the first 20 pages, after that it is to predictable.
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2: An old favorite
I 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!
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3: 13 pieces of Victorian variety
It 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.
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4: It's good
I 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.
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