The new epicuran & ; The adventures of a school-boy : two tales from the Victorian underground / [The new epicuran attributed to Edward Sellon and The adventures by James Campbell Reddie]

E. Sellon, J. Reddie

The New Epicurean: The Delights of Sex, Facetiously and Philosophically Considered, in Graphic Letters Addressed to Young Ladies of Quality, is a Victorian erotic novel published by William Dugdale in 1865 and attributed to Edward Sellon. The novel is falsely dated "1740", and is written as an eighteenth-century pastiche, composed of a series of letters addressed to various young ladies. The story concerns an English gentleman, named Sir Charles, and his wife Lady Celia, who procure young girls to their suburban villa, in order to indulge in sex with them. The house is luxuriously furnished and is situated in extensive grounds with an inner secret garden surrounded by high walls to prevent onlookers observing what takes place there. About The adventures of a school-boy, or, the Freaks of youthful passion, from Dugdale's catalogue: A very natural and powerfully written tale, describing in vivid colours the seduction of two young and delicious creatures by two sprigs of fashion, Eaton scholars, and the gradual transition from the most refined voluptuousness to the grossest sensuality richly and lusciously depicted.