Works discussed in this volume : Alice series (Phyllis Reynolds Naylor) -- Always running, La Vida Loca : gang days in L.A. (Luis T. Rodriguez) -- America (the book) : a citizen's guide to democracy inaction (Jon Stewart, Ben Karlin, David Javerbaum) -- An American tragedy (Theodore Dreiser) -- The Arabian nights, or The thousand and one nights (Sir Richard Burton, trans.) -- The art of love, Ars Amatoria (Ovid, Publius Ovidius Naso) -- Bessie Cotter (Wallace Smith) -- The bluest eye (Toni Morrison) -- Boy (James Hanley) -- The buffalo tree (Adam Rapp) -- Candide (Voltaire, François Marie Arouet Voltaire) -- Candy (Maxwell Kenton) -- The carpetbaggers (Harold Robbins) -- Casanova's homecoming, Casanova's heimfahrt (Arthur Schnitzler) -- The Chinese room (Vivian Connell) -- Christine (Stephen King) -- The clan of the cave bear (Jean Auel) -- Confessions (Jean-Jacques Rousseau) -- The decameron (Giovanni Boccaccio) -- The deer park (Norman Mailer) -- The devil rides outside (John Howard Griffin) -- The diary of Samuel Pepys (Samuel Pepys) -- Droll stories (Honoré de Balzac) -- Dubliners (James Joyce) -- Eat me (Linda Jaivin) -- Fanny Hill, or memoirs of a woman of pleasure (John Cleland) -- The fifteen plagues of a maidenhead (Anonymous) -- Flowers for Algernon (Daniel Keyes) -- The flowers of evil, Les fleurs du mal (Charles Baudelaire) -- Forever (Judy Blume) -- Forever Amber (Kathleen Winsor) -- From here to eternity (James Jones) -- The genius (Theodore Dreiser) -- The gilded hearse (Charles O. Gorham) -- The ginger man (J.P. Donleavy) -- The goats (Brock Cole) -- God's little acre (Erskine Caldwell) -- The group (Mary McCarthy) -- Hagar Revelly (Daniel Carson Goodman). The handmaid's tale (Margaret Atwood) -- The heptameron, L'heptameron ou histoires des amans fortunez (Marguerite d'Angoulême, Queen of Navarre) -- The history of Tom Jones, a foundling (Henry Fielding) -- Homo sapiens (Stanley Przybyskzewski) -- How to make love like a porn star (Jenna Jameson) -- If it die (André Gide) -- Isle of pines (Henry Neville) -- It's perfectly normal : changing bodies, growing up, sex, and sexual health (Robbie H. Harris) -- Janet March (Floyd Dell) -- Jude the obscure (Thomas Hardy) -- Jurgen : a comedy of justice (James Branch Cabell) -- Justine, or the misfortunes of virtue Juliette, her sister, or the prosperities of vice (Marquis de Sade) -- The kama sutra of Vatsayana (Sir Richard Burton, F.F. Arbuthnot, translators) -- The Kreutzer sonata (Leo Tolstoy) -- Ladies in the parlor (Jim Tully) -- Lady Chatterley's lover (D.H. Lawrence) -- La Terre, the earth (Émile Zola) -- Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov) -- The lustful Turk (Anonymous) -- Madame Bovary (Gustave Flaubert) -- Madeleine (Anonymous) -- Mademoiselle de Maupin (Théophile Gautier) -- The maid of Orleans, La pucelle (François-Marie Arouet Voltaire) -- Memoires (Giovanni Casanova de Seingalt) -- Memoirs of a young rakehell (Guillaume Apollinaire) -- Memoirs of Hecate County (Edmund Wilson) -- The merry muses of Caledonia (Robert Burns) -- Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe) -- My life and loves (Frank Harris) -- A night in a Moorish harem (Anonymous) -- November, Novembre (Gustave Flaubert) -- The 120 days of Sodom, Les 120 journées de Sodome (Marquis de Sade) -- Our lady of the flowers, Notre-Dame des fleurs (Jean Genet) -- Outlaw representation (Richard Meyer) -- Pamela, or virtue rewarded (Samuel Richardson). Pansies (D.H. Lawrence) -- The perfumed garden (Sir Richard Burton, trans.) -- Peyton Place (Grace Metalious) -- The philanderer (Stanley Kauffmann) -- Poems and ballads (Algernon Charles Swinburne) -- Point counter point (Aldous Huxley) -- Rabbit, run (John Updike) -- The rainbow (D.H. Lawrence) -- Replenishing Jessica (Max Bodenheim) -- Sanctuary (William Faulkner) -- Sari says (Sari Locker) -- The satyricon (Gaius Petronius Arbiter) -- September in Quinze (Vivian Connell) -- Serenade (James M. Cain) -- Sex (Madonna) -- Sexus (Henry Miller) -- Shanghai baby (Wei Hui, Zhou Weihui) -- Simon called Peter (Robert Keable) -- 1601 : a fireside conversation in ye time of Queen Elizabeth (Mark Twain) -- Sleeveless errand (Norah C. James) -- Snow falling on cedars (David Guterson) -- Sophie's choice (William Styron) -- A story teller's holiday (George Moore) -- Studs Lonigan : a trilogy (James T. Farrell) -- Susan Lenox : her fall and rise (David Graham Phillips) -- Sweeter than life (Mark Tyron) -- Ten North Frederick (John O'Hara) -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy) -- Then again, maybe I won't (Judy Blume) -- The thief's journal (Jean Genet) -- Three weeks (Elinor Glyn) -- Tobacco road (Erskine Caldwell) -- Tragic ground (Erskine Caldwell) -- Trilby (George du Maurier) -- The triumph of death (Gabriele D'Annunzio) -- Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller) -- Tropic of Capricorn (Henry Miller) -- Ulysses (James Joyce) -- Venus and Tannhauser, Under the hill (Aubrey Beardsley) -- The wild palms (William Faulkner) -- Women in love (D.H. Lawrence) -- Women on top : how real life changed women's sexual fantasies (Nancy Friday) -- A young girl's diary (Anonymous).