The Erotic In Literature
Author: David Loth
Access No: 5653
Call No: 363.47
Collection: PIR ALI MUHAMMAD RASHDI COLLECTION
Volumes: 300-399
About this Book
A Night in a Moorish Harem is an erotic novella published in 1896 under the pseudonym "Lord George Herbert". It is written in the first person in the persona of a shipwrecked British sailor, recounting the night he spent in a Moroccan harem with nine concubines of different nationalities. The literary topos of the harem has been classified by some as a typical example of Western literary orientalism. In December 1923, two New York booksellers, Maurice Inman and Max Gottschalk, were arrested for...
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