From the innocent yearnings of Longus's Daphnis and Chloe to the sado-masochism of Pauline Reage's O and the glacial self-torture of Edith Templeton's carnally obsessed wartime heroine, Erotic Stories is an exploration of human desire in all it's complexity. Raw and intense, subtle and insinuating, the tales gathered here - by Boccaccio, Chekhov, Anais Nin, Michele Roberts and Hanif Kureishi - are designed to arouse and unsettle. Stories of ardour and transgression flow from unexpected pens: an ...