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The Olympia reader : selections from the Traveller's companion series /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Girodias, Maurice (Editor), Rubington (Illustrator), Estrée, Sabine d' (Translator), Frechtman, Bernard (Translator), Seaver, Richard (Translator), Wainhouse, Austryn (Translator)
Format: Book
Language:English
Language Notes:In English; some selections translated from the French.
Published: New York : Grove Press, Inc., [1965]
Subjects:
Sex customs > Fiction.
Erotic fiction.
Short stories.
Publisher's cloth bindings.
Dust jackets.
Fiction.
Table of Contents:
  • The world of sex / Henry Miller
  • I hear voices / Paul Ableman
  • The adventures of Father Silas / Beauregard de Farniente
  • Roman orgy / Marcus van Heller
  • Stradella / James Sherwood
  • The ginger man / J.P. Donleavy
  • The black book / Lawrence Durrell
  • The pleasure thieves / Harriet Daimler & Henry Crannach
  • The young and evil / Charles Henri Ford & Parker Tyler
  • Watt / Samuel Beckett
  • Plexus / Henry Miller
  • Fanny Hill / John Cleland
  • Story of O / Pauline Réage ; translated by Sabine Destré
  • Kama houri / Ataullah Mardaan
  • The thief's journal / Jean Genet ; translated by Bernard Frechtman
  • My life and loves / Frank Harris
  • Candy / Maxwell Kenton
  • The enormous bed / Henry Jones
  • The gaudy image / William Talsman
  • Justine / Marquis de Sade ; translated by Richard Seaver and Austryn Wainhouse
  • Naked lunch / William S. Burroughs
  • Young Adam / Frances Lengel
  • Teleny / Anonymous
  • Fuzz against junk / Akbar del Piombo
  • Steiner's tour / Philip O'Connor
  • Under the hill / Aubrey Beardsley & John Glassco
  • The white paper / Anonymous
  • A sad, ungraceful history of Lolita / Maurice Girodias
  • Quiet days in Clichy / Henry Miller
  • Sin for breakfast / Hamilton Drake
  • The ticket that exploded / William S. Burroughs
  • Houses of joy / Wu Wu Meng
  • Pinktoes / Chester Himes
  • The soft machine / Williams Burroughs
  • Sexus / Henry Miller
  • Zazie / Raymond Queneau ; translated by Akbar del Piombo and Eric Kahane
  • Madame Edwarda / Georges Bataille ; translated by Austryn Wainhouse
  • Our lady of the flowers / Jean Genet ; translated by Bernard Frechtman
  • The woman thing / Harriet Daimler
  • The American express / Gregory Corso
  • The black diaries of Roger Casement / Maurice Girodias & Peter Singleton-Gates.