The Naughty Bits: The Steamiest and Most Scandalous Sex Scenes from the World's Great Books

By: Jack Murnighan

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Synopsis: The literary education you've always lusted for. Fresh from the virtual pages of Nerve.com comes this collection of "naughty bits," an irreverent look into the steamy, scandalous side of literature past and present. With bite-sized salacious excerpts from the classics -- new and old -- each with a fresh, insightful introduction, The Naughty Bits presents the world's great books as you never thought you'd see them. Includes naughty bits by: Dante, D. H. Lawrence, Philip Roth, Goethe, Toni Morrison, Julio Cortázar, John Cheever, William Shakespeare, Thaddeus Rutkowski, John Donne, Thomas Malory, Günter Grass, Herman Melville, John Barth, Ernest Hemingway, Erica Jong, Thomas Carew, M. F. K. Fisher, William Kennedy, Jeanette Winterson, Paul West, Harry Mathews, Catullus Clarice, Lispector Giovanni, Boccaccio, James Baldwin, Nicholson Baker, Tom Wolfe, John Wilmot, Kevin Canty, Plato, James Joyce, Lydia Davis, François Rabelais, Kenneth Starr, Henry Miller, John Updike, Geoffrey Chaucer, Marquis de Sade, Sir Philip Sidney, Holly Hughes, Martin Amis, Andrew Marvell, The Pearl Poet, Thomas Pynchon, Sappho, William Gibson, Mark Leyner, Margery Kempe, Jean Genet, Edmund Spenser, John Cleland, Kurt Vonnegut, Anaïs Nin, Petronius, Keith Banner, Umberto Eco, J. G. Ballard, Mario Vargas Llosa, Ovid, Jean de Meun, Catherine Breillat, George Eliot, Kenzaburo Oe, Cormac McCarthy, Larry Flynt, Rupert Brooke, The Old Testament.