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Literary grand-dame Edith Wharton, who most famously penned The Age of Innocence, apparently also penned chesty accounts of Victorians doing the nasty. Lapham’s Quarterly has one of her stories.

Here’s a PG excerpt:

“Again her burning lips were parted by his…

Please. Haven’t you heard that Playboy devoted an issue to the newest translation of Madame Bovary? Complete with Bovary-themed pictorial!

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   Please. Haven’t you heard that Playboy devoted an issue...the newest translation

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   Lone Pulitzer winner to have dabbled in porn? Research, can we check this? (If only we had

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