The Naughty Bits: The Steamiest and Most Scandalous Sex Scenes from the World's Great Books

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Jack Murnighan

The Naughty Bits

The Steamiest and Most Scandalous Sex Scenes from the World's Great Books

Jack Murnighan

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Random House USA Inc
06 July 2001

Anthologies (non-poetry); Erotic fiction

The Steamiest and Most Scandalous Sex Scenes from the World's Great Books

The literary education you've always lusted for.

Fresh from the virtual pages of Nerve.com comes this collection of ""naughty bits,"" an irreverent look into the steamy, scandalous side of literature past and present. With bite-sized salacious excerpts from the classics -- new and old -- each with a fresh, insightful introduction, The Naughty Bits presents the world's great books as you never thought you'd see them.

Includes naughty bits by-

Dante D. H. Lawrence Philip Roth Goethe Toni Morrison Julio Cortazar John Cheever William Shakespeare Thaddeus Rutkowski John Donne Thomas Malory G nter Grass Herman Melville John Barth Ernest Hemingway Erica Jong Thomas Carew M. F. K. Fisher William Kennedy Jeanette Winterson Paul West Harry Mathews Catullus Clarice Lispector Giovanni Boccaccio James Baldwin Nicholson Baker Tom Wolfe John Wilmot Kevin Canty Plato James Joyce Lydia Davis Fran ois Rabelais Kenneth Starr Henry Miller John Updike Geoffrey Chaucer Marquis de Sade

Sir Philip Sidney Holly Hughes Martin Amis Andrew Marvell The Pearl Poet Thomas Pynchon Sappho William Gibson Mark Leyner Margery Kempe

Jean Genet Edmund Spenser John Cleland Kurt Vonnegut Anais Nin Petronius Keith Banner Umberto Eco J. G. Ballard Mario Vargas Llosa Ovid Jean de Meun Catherine Breillat George Eliot Kenzaburo Oe Cormac McCarthy Larry Flynt Rupert Brooke The Old Testament

Edited by: Jack Murnighan
Imprint: Random House USA Inc
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 132mm, Spine: 14mm
Weight: 221g
ISBN: 9780609806609
ISBN 10: 0609806602
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 06 July 2001
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Jack Murnighan received a Ph.D. in literature from Duke University in 1999 while editor-in-chief of Nerve.com, the website that pioneered ""literary smut."" At Nerve he coedited (with Genevieve Field) the short story collection Full Frontal Fiction (Three Rivers Press, 2000). He now writes essays and fiction full-time. His stories have been chosen for The Best American Erotica in 1999, 2000, and 2001.