Now available! — The third volume in our Petites series, featuring extremely rare photographs from the 1920s and 30s, curated, colorized, and enhanced for print. THREE PETITES, lovingly compiled by Norman Conquest, celebrates natural female beauty, sans implants and other contemporary intrusions. Liberated women stand proud and strong — symbols of feminine power.
This coffee table booklet is printed in gorgeous full color — guaranteed to excite and inspire connoisseurs the world over.
Here’s your chance to sample 14 titles in the Pocket Erotica Series, the seminal series of classic & contemporary erotic fiction.
This mouth-watering anthology includes:
Travels to Merryland. Anonymous From Their Lips to His Ear. Denis Diderot Priapeia. Anonymous A Judge Deceived. Marquis de Sade A Good Girl’s Home Companion. Lawrence Hamilton A Handbook of Manners for the Good Girls of France. Pierre Louÿs Poems of Lust & Desire. Various Jean-Fucque. Louis Aragon / RJ Dent Eve’s Academy. Eurydice Eve A Dirty Story as You Like It. Kim Vodicka Escape Artists. Su Orwell Grand Hotel Vittoria. Nina Ansani The Obedience Room. Catherine D’Avis The Desire Box. Laure Favager
THE POCKET EROTICA READER A Connoisseur’s Sampler Edited by Norman Conquest New Urge Editions Paperback; 178 pp.; $14 ISBN 979-8-9908521-5-0
Pihla, a beautiful journalist from Helsinki, is on an assignment to cover subterranean sex scenes across Europe. Although detached from the decadence she witnesses, Pihla needs a respite, and checks into the Grand Hotel Vittoria in the hills of Tuscany. And then she meets Giovanni…
The 27th volume in our collectible Pocket Erotica series is a sensual work of contemporary fiction by Nina Ansani. Warm up your holiday and visit the Grand Hotel Vittoria.
Eléa follows a strange fish and is thrown into a provocative realm of unabashed sexual gratification. Faced with evading the grip of the law, escaping the intoxicating clutches of l’hôpital du plaisir, and eluding the ire of her parallel lover’s fiancée, she must return home before she fades away altogether.
A startling, surreal, satiric erotic escapade, this raunchy Wonderland is imbued with the spirit of Kafka, Nin, and Terry Southern.
Laure. Favager’s style is engaging and disruptive, transporting readers into a surreal world where the lines between reality and sexual fantasy blur. The author’s vivid and explicit prose create a comic atmosphere that is both sexy and unsettling, immersing the reader in Eléa’s increasingly erotic escapades.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Laure Favager’s short fiction has appeared in several literary journals in France and Quebec. This is her first publication in the U.S.
She lives in Brittany with two uninhibited cats.
UPDATE: Laure Favager’s The Desire Box is now available from New Urge.
“Louÿs’s jolly saga of sexual insatiability…is one of the handful of erotic works that achieve true literary status.” — Susan Sontag
“Among all Pierre Louÿs’s books, this is undoubtedly my favourite, the most moving, most uplifting and sometimes the most terrifying, the purest, the least artificial and the most modern. A masterpiece.” —André Pieyre de Mandiargues
“One of the most moving books ever written on the fatality of desires.” —Annie Le Brun
“Amazing! It’s pornographic, but high quality!” — Jean d’Ormesson
“Here is, without question, is Pierre Louÿs’ erotic masterpiece. The strength of the novel does not come from its eventual biographical value, but from the constant transgression that manifests itself within it—containing all the erotic themes dear to the writer, elevated to a singular power. We also find here the key qualities of Louÿs’ style: the liveliness of the dialogues, the precision of the language, the irony, the relentlessness with which certain obscene words are constantly repeated. This scandalous book constitutes a total profanation and derision of this bourgeois universe to which the author belonged.” —Jean-Paul Goujon
A young man receives an advanced education in the permutations of sex from a mother and her three—surprisingly well-educated—daughters. Part memoir, part confession, Her Three Daughters is Pierre Louÿs at his outrageously erotic best.
HER THREE DAUGHTERS Pierre Louÿs Translated from the French by R J Dent New Urge Editions paperback; 340 pp.; $15
In 2020, New Urge Editions published Hélène Lavelle‘s controversial erotic novel, The Rites of Ecstasy. Today, we are pleased to announce Volume 2—Le Château du Comte—translated from the French by Valéry Soers.
Summoned back to the Domain, Gabrielle surrenders to the demands of the Vicomtesse, the Comte, and Lady Isabella. Much more than a sequel to The Rites of Ecstasy, this novel takes us beyond the introspective feminine dreaminess of La Maison to a more bracing, hallucinatory, wild and strange terrain of its own—the culmination and climax of ‘the Great Work’ on Gabrielle’s heart, soul, mind and body. A story of dramatic and erotic power – an immersion in another world – exploring the farther shores of female desire, love, hate and friendship, through extremes of pleasure and pain to the heights of the Sublime.
Le Château du Comte by Hélène Lavelle Translated from the French by Valéry Soers A New Urge Paperback Original Trade paper; 315 pp.; $14.95 ISBN 979-8985999648
FREE DOWNLOAD Peek behind the scenes & explore Hélène Lavelle’s novels. Read Dawn Avril Fitzroy’s article “Ruminations on THE RITES OF ECSTASY,” from Black Scat Review#25. Click here to download the free PDF.
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In the tradition of Decadent literature, spiced with Gothic, this provocative novel takes the reader on a voyage through dream, reverie, fantasy, memory and imagination – recounting the raptures and tortures in the initiation of a young woman, Gabrielle, by the Vicomtesse, the Comte and their entourage in The Domain.
“This modern classic deserves to be ranked alongside the great French erotic masterpieces, Story of O and The Image , and very few others. Not for the faint-hearted or the narrow-minded, this story of love, excess, degradation, cruelty, tenderness and beauty is for all women whose fantasies and desires embrace the intensely erotic.” —Dawn Avril Fitzroy
THIS POST HAS BEEN UPDATED (19 April 2022) We recently updated two of our New Urge titles with new cover designs by N. Conquest. These handsome paperback editions are available at the links below.
A second edition of Denis Diderot‘s From Their Lips to His Ear (Pocket Erotica #6) is also available. It features a delicious illustration on the flyleaf. Diderot, of course, was the highly celebrated 18th century French philosopher & editor of the groundbreaking Encyclopédie. In 1748, in need of money, he wrote this scandalous and satiric libertine allegory — Les Bijoux Indiscrets —whose hero, a sultan, is in possession of a magic ring. This exquisite little edition has been edited by Lawrence Hamilton.
“Pierre Louÿs is one of the great and glorious erotomaniacs of the end of the nineteenth century.” — André Pierre de Mandiargues
In 2016 we published The New Pleasure & other storiesby Louÿs, which is currently out of print. Below, the cover (at left), and (at right) a provocative design which never appeared.
Meanwhile, the first English translation of Alphonse Allais‘s Loves, Delights, & Organs (translated from the French by Doug Skinner) is now available. This is the thirteenth volume in our unrivaled Alphonse Allais Collection.
LAST BUT NOT LEAST…. the “funhouse” issue of BLACK SCAT REVIEW has rolled into town.
Pierre Louÿs wrote this scandalous and salacious satirical work in 1917, yet it wasn’t published until 1926, after his death. Originally titled Manuel de civilité pour les petites filles à l’usage des maisons d’éducation, it was the author’s first published erotic work—issued anonymously in Paris, with no date nor publisher’s imprint.
A Handbook of Manners for the Good Girls of France parodies the educational handbooks of the day, as well as popular guides to etiquette. But unlike the author’s elegantly sensual ouvre, including Les Chansons de Bilitis and Aphrodite: mœurs antiques, this is Louÿs’ most radical and subversive book — aimed directly at middle-class puritanism, mocking the hypocrisy and complacency of the Belle Époque. It attacks religion and social norms with equal vigor— a sharp slap in the face of censors and prudes.
It’s also very funny.
A HANDBOOK OF MANNERS FOR THE GOOD GIRLS OF FRANCE Pierre Louÿs Translated from the French by Lono Taggers Paperback; 70 pp., illustrated; $12 Pocket Erotica #23 / New Urge ISBN 13 978-1-7379430-6-8
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Pierre Louÿs, poet and novelist, was born in Belgium but spent his life in France. He is best known for his erotic works, many with sapphic and classical themes. His most popular titles include Aphrodite: mœurs antiques; Trois Filles de leur mère; Le Trophée de vulves légendaires; Poésies érotiques; La Femme et le pantin; and Les Chansons de Bilitis. His contributions to French erotic literature remain unequaled.
Originally published in 1894 under the title Les Chansons de Bilitis, this provocative collection of poetry was purportedly translated from the Ancient Greek but was, in fact, the product of the imagination of French poet Pierre Louÿs.
A faux contemporary of the poet Sappho, Bilitis offers the modern reader these seductive, sensual, and unashamed celebrations of female sexuality.
A beautiful book for the bedside.
LIPS OF BILITIS Pierre Louÿs Translated by Lono Taggers Illustrations by Willy Pogány Paperback; 186 pp., $14 New Urge Editions / Black Scat Books ISBN 978-1-7379430-5-1
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