The Pearl - Victorian Erotic Classics Author:Anonymous, Anonymous Among the first "Journals of Voluptuous Reading" to be spawned by the Victorians, this novel shows them as vastly different from their public image--beneath the facade of respectability and sexual repression there existed the strongest urge for sexual experimentation and enjoyment. First published in London in July 1879, it provided unrestrained... more » erotica for every taste.« less