Delta of Venus (Paperback)

from PghDragonMan

By today's standards, this is pretty tame reading, but when it was first published, it was some pretty racy stuff! What you find here is actually worthy of being labeled literature, but make no mistake, these stories are not likely to show up on a high school reading list. These short stories hav...

from lydia1879

I have mixed feelings about this one, like a lot of people. On the one hand, it's Anaïs Nin, the one-woman powerhouse who wrote erotica in the 20th century. Erotica from a female perspective, which no one was doing at the time. On the other, reading it, it didn't always feel like her. And I gener...

from realbigcat

After having read Little Birds I expected something even better. I would say it's a comparable read. Based om todays standards it's on the milder spectrum of erotica. As with any short story collection I found some stories much more enjoyable than others. Her use of the term "sex" for the most in...

from aront

I will review the reviews of this book: the 4/5 star reviews give many excellent insights into why this is such a compelling read and definitely worth your time. The people who complain “ick incest/necrophilia/rape/pedophilia/any other perversion” seem to be people who were looking for porn and a...

from dreamingtereza

In the preface to this sensual and exotic collection of interrelated short stories, Anais Nin provides the account of the mysterious patron who offered to pay one dollar per page for the erotica that she and her counterparts wrote for him. Several times she recounts his complaining that there was...