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One of the funniest moments in the history of Olympia came when the South African poet Sinclair Beiles entered Girodias' office with sheets of paper adorned by Chinese characters. Telling Girodias a story about youth spent among missionaries in China, Beiles indicated his reams of parchment, and stated that they were unique erotic writings from that nation, and all he'd need to translate this phenomenal document would be some money each week f...

The legendary story of the daughter of a kisaeng, Korean singer/entertainer, and Li Mong Ryong, the son of a local lord. Chun Hyang is the most beloved tale of love in Korea, the subject of that nation's first-ever talking film (remade more than a dozen times to date.) The pair's separation, her subsequent torture by a corrupt minister, and their eventual reuniting, were first remembered in pansori, a Korean version of Peking Opera, before the...

First portion of this legendary work of Peking Opera. Primarily a love story set at the height of the Tang Dynasty, during the reign of Li Longji, The Palace of Eternal Youth chronicles the emperor's adoration Lady Yang to the neglect of his duties, and the turmoil caused by the scheming An Lushan.

Peter Goullart was brought up in the Orient and spent most of his life there. This book describes his years in the ancient forgotten Chinese kingdom of Nakhi in Yunnan, by the Tibetan border, where, as a representative of the Chinese Industrial Co-operatives, he really mixed with the people. 'This is a book about paradise by a man who lived there for nine years. It is not easy to write a good book about paradise, but people are Mr. Goullart's ...

A period will, sooner or later, arrive, at which the disciplining and flagellating practices even now in use and which have been so for so many centuries, will have been laid aside, and succeeded by others equally whimsical. And while the men of those days will overlook the defects of their own extravagant customs, or perhaps even admire the rationality of them, they will refuse to believe that the practices of which accounts are given in this...

Reporter Nick Mason witnesses an execution and gains a clue from the condemned man, sending Nick into a network of crime and murder!

In a sedate rural village in late 19th-century England, the beautiful Vanessa lives quietly with her brother until the day the lustful Vicar takes her in hand. In time, the modest hamlet becomes a hotbed of passion, as Vanessa turns her newfound skills toward luring other households into their secret coterie.

Another classic account from Olympia's later years. The Yellow Room is the story of Alice Darvell, a young woman sent off to live with her aunt and uncle, there to be educated and disciplined, as it turns out, by means of the lash.

The complete account of Charlie Roberts, his family, his servants, his boarding school chums, his wife and his travels. In one volume. The Olympia Press is glad to provide a new home to this underground classic that seldom stays out of print for long.

Scenes in the Harem of an Eastern Potentate faithfully and vividly depicting in a series of letters from a young and beautiful English lady to her friend in England the full particulars of her ravishment and of her complete abandonment to all the salacious tastes of the Turks, the whole being described with that zest and simplicity which always gives guarantee of authenticity. Actually a pre-Victorian title, dating roughly to the 1820s, but a...

Stunning classic of Victorian erotica. Through a casual observer, we see all that society's hypocrises and vice on display. The flea travels from house to house, observing lecherous priests, the deflowering of beautiful young bella, her friend Julia and numerous amorous encounters, all in a writing style that puts you right there at the center of the action.

A somewhat lighter tale from the house of Charles Carrington, first published in Paris in 1895. Beatrice is a young woman returning home after a failed marriage. Restored to the comforts of family, she is assuaged from her grief by introduction to the delicate and sensuous arts of love-making, and, in a manner typical for 1895, to the gentle use of whips and straps. The lessons are carried out through numerous incidents of instruction for ou...

Two-volume tale, first published by Charles Carrington in Paris in 1907. Volume I presents the education and maturation of Cecil Prendergast, who while studying at Oxford gets his real education from one Mrs. Harcourt. In volume II, Cecil applies what he's learned to the world around. Classic of S&M, much-beloved for its convincing depiction of both sides of the equation.

Another classic bit of erotica, published by Olympia in the firm's later incarnations. Pauline is a woman who regales her "dear friend" in a letter replete with erotic adventures among both men and women.

First published in the Netherlands by 1890s booklegger August Brancart, Nunnery Tales is the story of a young woman who accompanies her mother to the Convent of St. Claire. Only she's a he, his secret is found out quickly, and as every fan of Monty Python knows, in a Victorian Abby, there must be quite a few punishments (as well as rewards). Thankfully in this masterpiece of the period, no Sir Galahad comes along to spoil the fun.

MISS COOTE'S CONFESSION, subtitled Or the Voluptuous Experiences of an Old Maid, In a series of Letters to a Lady Friend, was published by Anonymous in the legendary Victorian magazine Pearl, and charts the progression of punishments that quickly turn into pleasures for their victims.

This anonymous classic was published by Olympia during one of the firm's later incarnations. Takes a special woman to play along like this. There's also a Christian marriage guide which shares the same title, but has rather a different sort of content.

Legendary title, first printed in a limited edition of some 150 copies. During a lull in a wild night of lust, one woman lets her companions know some of her many varied experiences, with men, women, boys... and livestock. Later republished by Grove in an edited, yet impossible to find version, we've done what we could cleaning up the original (for spelling).

La Bretonne, a printer by trade, published over 250 novels in his lifetime, many of them social tracts concerning reform. In his private life, the man was rather liberated and when he writes, he writes from experience. Pleasures and Follies was titled L'Anti-Justine, ou les Delices de l'Amour. The work traces the growth and sexual awakening of Genovefette and her brother Cupidonnet, as they rise from adolescence into a world strewn with playf...

Jud Elkov finds a wealthy man to support him in New York, but when his buddy Bill Powers arrives they discover that Gotham is a town of willing, wanton women, and they plough through the wide-open city in an unforgettable Christmas vacation.