Ebook: Mounts of Venus: The Picador Book of Erotic Prose

The best-selling MAKING LOVE was acclaimed by everyone from the Sun to the Sunday Telegraph as the indispensable compendium of erotic verse, and established Alan Bold as our foremost delver into the naughtier reaches of world literature. Now, by popular demand, here is the irresistible successor to that pioneering work: MOUNTS OF VENUS, the complete anthology of erotic prose.



Here are Joyce and D. H. Lawrence, Henry Miller and Anais Nin; Pepys, Boswell and Casanova, Frank Harris and the indefatigable Walter; Simone de Beauvoir and Edna O’Brien, Updike, Mailer and Lenny Bruce; Petronius, Boccaccio and Rabelais, de Sade and Sacher-Masoch; not to mention Irish, German and Scottish members of the Clan Anonymous.



All these and many more add up to a collection of unrivalled scope, as instructive as it is entertaining.



Alan Bold was born in 1943 in Edinburgh, where he attended university and trained as a journalist. Since 1966 he has been a full-time writer and visual artist and since 1975 has lived in rural Fife with his wife and daughter. He has published many books of poetry including To Find the New, The State of the Nation and This Fine Day as well as a selection in Penguin Modem Poets 15. He has edited The Penguin Book of Socialist Verse, The Martial Muse: Seven Centuries of War Poetry, the Cambridge Book of English Verse 1939-75, Making Love: The Picador Book of Erotic Verse, and The Bawdy Beautiful: The Sphere Book of Improper Verse. He has also written critical books on Thom Gunn & Ted Hughes, George Mackay Brown and The Ballad. He has had many exhibitions of his Illuminated Poems (pictures combining an original poetic manuscript with an illustrative composition).