Man with a Maid: And Other Victorian Stories [Paperback]

Anonymous (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 2004

This omnibus volume combines examples of the best of Victorian erotica, including

* The English Governess

* The Pearl

* The Autobiography of a Flea

* Man With A Maid, the popular Victorian classic which has sold hundreds of thousands of volumes in the 80 years since it first appeared

Man With A Maid tells the story of Jack, a Victorian gentleman, who plots sweet revenge on the fiancee who jilts him, not to mention her maid, a close friend, and his rival's mother-in-law. Setting up residence in the 'Snuggery,' once the soundproof ""mad room"" of an insane asylum, he subjects Alice and the rest of his female company to bondage and orgiastic sexuality, dealing out both pleasure and pain in exacting revenge.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 384 pages
• Publisher: Circlet Press (March 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1885865481
• ISBN-13: 978-1885865489
• Product Dimensions: 8.3 x 5.2 x 1.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 11.2 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #674,084 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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10 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars An old favorite, July 7, 2006

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Laura M. Antoniou "www.lantoniou.com" (Flushing, NY USA) - See all my reviews
(REAL NAME)   

This review is from: Man with a Maid: And Other Victorian Stories (Paperback)

I found this on my cousin's bookshelf with I was but a wee thing, stole it. A classic of Victorian erotica, it's the story of Jack who gets jilted by his fiancee and takes revenge on her, her maid, and others in a lovingly described soundproofed room with equisite details of torture and pleasure. Cleis Press is keeping this old classic in print!

10 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars 13 pieces of Victorian variety, May 15, 2006

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TammyJo Eckhart "TammyJo Eckhart" (Bloomington, Indiana United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Man with a Maid: And Other Victorian Stories (Paperback)

It is a common stereotype that Victorian [...] was all caning, servants, and beaten children. Granted those are common themes but this collection shows more variety than that. We find old men and rejected men stealing innocence and women who have cast aside the sexual mores of their time to become preedators themselves. There are some hierarchical situations but most of the action takes place between social and age peers. I've removed one star from my rating because there are two important things missing from this book. The first are simple introductions to the pieces; even if we don't know the author we can know when it written and which country it was created in. Victorianism was fairly wide=spread for several decades but how it played out varied. Second the pieces need to be identified when they are only sections from a larger work or a series of stories. This would enable those who find the writting exciting to find other Victorian porn.

4.0 out of 5 stars Good book, November 4, 2011

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RedDragoniv - See all my reviews

This review is from: Man with a Maid: And Other Victorian Stories (Paperback)

I real victorian classic. The only issue I have with it is that its the same thing over and over again in each chapter. Worth a read however.