As influential and revelatory in its day as Fifty Shades of Grey is now, Anais Nin's Delta of Venus is a ground-breaking anthology of erotic short stories, published in Penguin Modern Classics. In Delta of Venus Anais Nin conjures up a glittering cascade of...

The brilliant tale of Anais Nin's true love affair with Henry Miller, and her ambiguous, charged relationship with his wife, June. Drawn from the journals of a single momentous year in Paris, Henry and June provides a wildly lyrical account of a woman's sexual...

'What did she expect of him? What was her quest? Did she have an unfulfilled desire? 'Transgressive desires and sexual encounters are recounted in these four pieces from one of the greatest writers of erotic fiction. Penguin Modern: fifty new books celebrating the pioneering...