The Pearl
- ISBN-10
- 0786706708
- ISBN-13
- 9780786706709
- Series
- The Pearl
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 656
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1999-08-01
- Publisher
- Carroll & Graf Publishers
- Authors
- Carroll & Graf, Professor James Holmes
Description
Bawdy, provocative, irresistibly entertaining, this collection of the jokes, ballads, epic sexual adventures, and scandalous gossip that appeared in Victorian London's first and most infamous 'Journal of Voluptuous Reading' will delight the most sophisticated modern reader.
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