From his precocious childhood to the end of what he calls his
"amatory career," an adventurous Victorian known only as "Walter"
records a breathtaking carnal epic through hundreds of sexual
encounters with one or more nursemaids, prostitutes, cousins,
actresses, workingmen, and other men's wives. In ruling everything
sexual within the realm of possibility, Walter reveals "varied
delights...whims and fancies normal and abnormal," sexual violence,
fetishes--and sometimes, surprisingly, love. From his many
escapades, he learns an invaluable lesson: "One can never know too
much concerning human nature." Portraying an era of notorious
repression, in which the appearance of propriety had to be strictly
maintained, "My Secret Life" provides a rare look at the hidden
side of Victorian life: the upstairs and downstairs encounters
where nothing is "proper"--or forbidden. First published in London
around 1900, this landmark work freshly illuminates the complex
sexual dynamics of a society strictly divided between rich and
poor, male and female, sexual and chaste. In James Kincaid's
abridgment, Walter and his world come to vivid life in new and
often surprising ways.
Edited and with an Introduction by James Kincaid and with an
Afterword by Paul Sawyer
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