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The Pearl made its debut in London in July 1879, a self-proclaimed journal for every taste. It flourished on the subterranean market until December 1880, when it vanished as mysteriously as it had appeared. Included in the eighteen issues were six serialized novels that are standards... Read Full Overview

An underground anthology of unblushing erotica for every taste, published in 1879, THE PEARL lasted for a little over a year before it vanished forever. Here, at last, in one volume, are all six novels, plus the poems, ballads, ditties, witticisms, jokes, letters, and more, from... Read Full Overview

Follow the story of Beatrice in Volume One, Lady Pokingham , where sordid adventures in the sexual underworld are commonplace, and virginal fantasies, flagellation, and Catholic guilt manifest?themselves as?streams of erotic poetry. In Volume Two, La Rose d'Amour , a young man... Read Full Overview

An underground anthology of unblushing erotica for every taste, published in 1879, THE PEARL lasted for a little over a year before it vanished forever. Here, at last, in one volume, are all six novels, plus the poems, ballads, ditties, witticisms, jokes, letters, and more, from... Read Full Overview