In the dim light of a hotel bedroom, a cool blonde sheds her clothes and her arrogance in the arms of two strangers...Beneath the blue skies of California, an unhappy woman explores the exquisite pleasure of adulterous revenge...Here are excerpts from a baker's dozen of classic erotic works from the past one hundred years and more. These include literary rarities such as The Yellow Room, With Open Mouth and The Cousins as well as candid confessions from Frank Harris's My Life and Loves and Walter's My Secret Life, the most notorious sexual autobiography ever written.