Emily: Or, the Voluptuous Delights of a Once-Innocent Young Lady [Hardcover]

James Jennings (Author)

Product Details

• Hardcover: 217 pages
• Publisher: Grove Press (October 1985)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0394620690
• ISBN-13: 978-0394620695
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.5 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,816,895 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Typically Victorian Erotic Novel, September 22, 1997

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Evan Miller "Hedonist and All Around Geek" (Cincinnati, Ohio USA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Emily: Or, the Voluptuous Delights of a Once-Innocent Young Lady (Hardcover)

Yet it stands out from all the other similar books by the sheer heat that radiates from the writing. Emily is promised in marriage to a man she does not desire, so she runs away and ends up at the house of an hospitable couple who engage in sexual daliances with their staff as well as guests. Emily and her sister decide to stay and do their best to keep Emily's finace away from her. (plot summary #10) This is a book worth reading if you can find it... hot eroticism in true victorian style!

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An erotic tale of seduction ..., November 1, 2002

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Rudolf Spoerer "dowadiddi" (Weston, FL United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Emily: Or, the Voluptuous Delights of a Once-Innocent Young Lady (Hardcover)

Although generally published as 'Anonymous' this James Jennings novel follows a very very traditional Victorian erotica style in that we have (and so do most of the charters in the book) a young Emily forced to marry the foppish son of a wealthy landowner to supposedly save her parents from the poorhouse ....

Emily, as a product of her times, certainly does not seem surprised by the fact that the young girls in her realm are the sexual targets for both family and non family members alike ... Of course like all good Victorian girls she certainly doesn't seem to bothered by this and, after learning what she likes, Emily goes out of her way to find 'distractions' ...

Fair warning .... As an unabashed fan of Victorian erotica I certainly enjoyed this book, but, I would imagine that for the first time reader i6t may be a bit of a drag ......