Whether it is Ernest Hemingway incessantly theorizing about male sexuality, Oscar Wilde describing his ambivalent sex life, Sean O'Casey telling of his long and happy marriage to Eileen Reynolds Carey, or Anais Nin writing in vivid detail about her trip to a Parisian brothel with Henry Miller as her guide, writers never tire of contemplating, agonizing over, and writing about the subject of sex. It may, in fact, be the favorite literary topic, and it is surely the richest source of literary anecdotes.

Joseph R. Orgel has sought out some of the liveliest writings of dozens of authors from Montaigne to Norman Mailer, from Whitman to Dorothy Parker, from Rousseau to Faulkner, from Hugo to Joyce--all discussing this eternally compelling topic. By sifting through a vast amount of biographical and autobiographical material, Orgel has gathered together a remarkable variety of information, all of it true, all of it, in one way or another, revealing.

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Book details

• Format Hardcover
• Pages379 pages
• LanguageEnglish
• ISBN100688022189
• ISBN139780688022181