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SEVERINE SELECT

Erotic Temptation

ROMANCE, LUST & SEXUAL DESIRES

Immerse yourself in a world of sensuality and passion with these captivating books.

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"The rapture of secret desires consummated in passion that we once stumbled upon together in the days when we never thought that such a thing as “irreconcilable differences” would have to do with us."
- Eve's Hollywood by Eve Babitz

"Beware of women…beware of those smouldering glances that could fatally ignite your passions, those women loved ephemerally."
Paris Peasant by Louis Aragon

The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac (1958)

The Subterraneans by Jack Kerouac (1958)

"No girl had ever moved me with a story of spiritual suffering and so beautifully her soul showing out radiant as an angel wandering in...

Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (1973)

Fear of Flying by Erica Jong (1973)

"Where men are concerned I have always lacked a simple quality known as caution, or perhaps you might call it common sense. I meet a guy...

Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller (1939)

Tropic of Capricorn by Henry Miller (1939)

"What is a fanatic? One who believes passionately and acts desperately upon what he believes. I was always believing in something and so...

Memoirs Of a Beatnik by Diane di Prima (1978)

Memoirs Of a Beatnik by Diane di Prima (1978)

"No two people kiss alike – no two people fuck alike- but somehow the kiss is even more personal, more individualized than the fuck."

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov (1955)

“I knew I had fallen in love with Lolita forever; but I also knew she would not be forever Lolita...But in my arms she was always...

Chéri by Colette (1920)

Chéri by Colette (1920)

"I love my past. I love my present. I'm not ashamed of what I've had, and I'm not sad because I have it no longer." Title : Chéri Author:...

Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet (1923)

Devil in the Flesh by Raymond Radiguet (1923)

"I at least regarded her as the only persoen who would have been worthy of my love, which amounts to saying I still loved her." "But I...

Story of the Eye by George Bataille (1928)

Story of the Eye by George Bataille (1928)

"Extreme seductiveness is at the boundary of horror" DESCRIPTION Bataille's first novel, published under the pseudonym 'Lord Auch', is...

Story of O by Pauline Reage (1954)

Story of O by Pauline Reage (1954)

Whatever he wanted of her she wanted too, solely because he was asking it of her. Title : Story of O Author: Pauline Reage Date...

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)

Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert (1856)

“Everything, even herself, was now unbearable to her. She wished that, taking wing like a bird, she could fly somewhere, far away to...

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (1928)

Lady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. Lawrence (1928)

“Sex and a cocktail: they both lasted about as long, had the same effect, and amounted to the same thing.” ***Wish List *** DESCRIPTION...

Irene's Cunt by Louis Aragon (1928)

Irene's Cunt by Louis Aragon (1928)

“I have never sought out anything but scandal, and I cultivate it for its own sake.” ***Wish List *** DESCRIPTION First published...

Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782)

Dangerous Liaisons by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos (1782)

“How characteristic of your perverse heart that longs only for what happens to be out of reach.” “I willingly allow that money does not...

Justine by Marquise de Sade (1787)

Justine by Marquise de Sade (1787)

"May your crimes make you as happy as your cruelties have made me suffer" DESCRIPTION 'I have become whore through goodwill and libertine...

The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquise de Sade (1904)

The 120 Days of Sodom by Marquise de Sade (1904)

"I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure." *** Wish List ***...

Delta Venus by Anais Nin (1977)

Delta Venus by Anais Nin (1977)

"The expression women have when they have seduced a man, an expression of vain satisfaction. A triumphant, uncontrollable inner...

Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1870)

Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1870)

"To suffer and endure cruel torture from then on seemed to me exquisite delight, especially when it was inflicted by a beautiful woman."...

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934)

Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller (1934)

"We came together in a dance of death and so quickly was I sucked down into the vortex that when I came to the surface again I could not...

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