Olympia Reader: An Anthology of Erotic and Literary Classics (1965)

by Maurice Girodias (Editor)

Other authors: Paul Ableman (Contributor), Georges Bataille (Contributor), Aubrey Beardsley (Contributor), Samuel Beckett (Contributor), William S. Burroughs (Contributor) — 39 more, John Cleland (Contributor), Jean Cocteau (Contributor), Gregory Corso (Contributor), Henry Crannach (Contributor), Harriet Daimler (Contributor), Beauregard de Farniente (Contributor), Marquis de Sade (Contributor), Abkar del Piombo (Contributor), Akbar del Piombo (Translator), Sabine Destré (Translator), J. P. Donleavy (Contributor), Hamilton Drake (Contributor), Lawrence Durrell (Contributor), Charles Henri Ford (Contributor), Bernard Frechtman (Translator), Jean Genet (Contributor), Maurice Girodias (Contributor), John Glassco (Contributor), Frank Harris (Contributor), Chester Himes (Contributor), Henry Jones (Contributor), Eric Kahane (Translator), Maxwell Kenton (Contributor), Frances Lengel (Contributor), Ataullah Mardaan (Contributor), Wu Wu Meng (Contributor), Henry Miller (Contributor), Phllip O'Connor (Contributor), Raymond Queneau (Contributor), Pauline Reage (Contributor), Norman Rubington (Illustrator), Marquis de Sade (Contributor), Richard Seaver (Translator), James Sherwood (Contributor), Peter Singleton-Gates (Contributor), William Talsman (Contributor), Parker Tyler (Contributor), Marcus Van Heller (Contributor), Austryn Wainhouse (Translator)

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Includes Henry Miller, J.P. Donleavy, Lawrence Durrell, Samuel Beckett, John Cleland, Genet, Sade, Burroughs, Queneau, and many others. Seven hundred pages of filth and literature.

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Girodias, Maurice	Editor	primary author	all editions	confirmed
Ableman, Paul	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Bataille, Georges	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Beardsley, Aubrey	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Beckett, Samuel	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Burroughs, William S.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Cleland, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Cocteau, Jean	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Corso, Gregory	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Crannach, Henry	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Daimler, Harriet	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
de Farniente, Beauregard	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
de Sade, Marquis	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
del Piombo, Abkar	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
del Piombo, Akbar	Translator	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Destré, Sabine	Translator	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Donleavy, J. P.	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Drake, Hamilton	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Durrell, Lawrence	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Ford, Charles Henri	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Frechtman, Bernard	Translator	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Genet, Jean	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Girodias, Maurice	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Glassco, John	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Harris, Frank	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Himes, Chester	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Jones, Henry	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Kahane, Eric	Translator	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Kenton, Maxwell	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Lengel, Frances	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Mardaan, Ataullah	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Meng, Wu Wu	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Miller, Henry	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
O'Connor, Phllip	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Queneau, Raymond	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Reage, Pauline	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Rubington, Norman	Illustrator	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sade, Marquis de	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Seaver, Richard	Translator	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Sherwood, James	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Singleton-Gates, Peter	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Talsman, William	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Tyler, Parker	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Van Heller, Marcus	Contributor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Wainhouse, Austryn	Translator	secondary author	all editions	confirmed

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This book provides a provocative overview of Olympia’s impressive offerings, including excerpts from Burroughs’s Naked Lunch and the cult favorite Candy by Terry Southern, as well as selections from erotic classics like Story of O, Fanny Hill, the Marquis de Sade’s Justine and many others. Each selection is accompanied by wonderful illustrations and fascinating reminiscences by Maurice Girodias, Olympia’s founder and guiding light, who suffered almost perpetual harassment from French authorities for publishing his “d.b.’s” (dirty books).

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