The Blue Moon Erotic Reader

by Barney Rosset (Editor)

This singular collection combines some of erotic fiction's most famous writers — Richard Manton, Don Winslow, Eve Howard, and P.N. Dedeaux — in one spectacular volume. The themes of seduction, desire, fantasy, sex, mystery, love, pleasure, and pain are presented here in a series of selections, from Victorian erotic fiction to more contemporary works such as What Love and The Correct Sadist. With literate and highly-charged erotica, The Blue Moon Erotic Reader offers a rich tableaux of sexual excess.

496 pages, Paperback

First published October 5, 1999

About the author

Barney Rosset was born in 1922 in Chicago to a Jewish father and an Irish Catholic mother. He was briefly married to the Abstract Expressionist American painter Joan Mitchell. He bought Grove Press in 1951, and sold it to the Getty family in 1985. He died in 2012.