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A Night in a Moorish Harem
A Night in a Moorish Harem
Book by Anonymous
126 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1896
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Lord George Herbert
3 books1 followerA pseudonym for the author of "A Night in a Moorish Harem." Sometimes the book was published under "Anonymous." A graphic novel adaptation was published under "George Herbert" which is not to be confused with other authors with the same name.
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December 11, 2022
This is a very filthy book. Its typical of old erotica in that the men are endlessly virile and the women baudy and voluptuous even if initially reluctant. The story is of a ship-wrecked sailor who finds himself given succour in a harem. The women tell him their stories, and then he screws them. That's it. Its rather well-written and if you enjoyed Fanny Hill, you will like this too.
August 6, 2016
La Nuit dans un harem maure est un roman libertin anglais du XIXè siècle. Sans doute pour ménager sa réputation, l'auteur a pris soin de dérober au public sa véritable identité. Il raconte un capitaine britannique naviguant sur l'Océan, ennuyé des devoirs et des fatigues à laquelle sa condition de marin le destine, rêvant aux plaisirs que la nature a placés dans la perpétuation de l'espèce, et que l’âme sublime par l’amour et l'imagination. Les circonstances romanesques le séparent brutalement des siens pour le transporter dans un état d’isolement et de détresse sur les côtes de la Barbarie. Il trouve asile dans un sérail curieusement isolé de toute civilisation.
Les concubines qui le hantent, des femmes arrachés à tous les pays de l'Europe, de l'Asie et de l'Afrique, hors de la surveillance de leur maître, sautent sur l'occasion pour lui prodiguer les marques d'une accorte hospitalité, laquelle dérive bientôt en une complaisance insinuante accordant par degré menues privautés et badinages coquins. Notre héros, n’en revenant pas de sa bonne fortune et n’étant pas un imbécile, souffre sans peine ces petites agaceries contre la pudeur, et y répond promptement en allant de son propre chef là même où elles voulaient le mener, distribuant ses hommages avec autant d’équité que d’empressement. Pour ranimer les esprits languissants du héros comme l’intérêt du lecteur, chaque nouveau culte rendu aux mystères de l’Amour avec une nouvelle prêtresse est précédé d’une narration piquante de cette dernière, dans un tableau à chaque fois différent, propres à enflammer l’imagination et le corps.
La traductrice se flatte d’avoir mené le texte au dessus de lui-même, en substituant au vocabulaire répétitif de l’œuvre originale un plus varié, en accord avec l’usage du français. Je n’ai pas été favorablement impressionné par l’introduction, laquelle se borne à exposer des théories littéraires fumeuses dans un psittacisme dépourvu d’esprit critique, et impatiente finalement le lecteur faute de l'instruire. L’affirmation suivant laquelle l’intérêt pour les romans licencieux ne daterait que de l’époque victorienne me parait incroyable. Bref, rien de transcendant ici. Dans le genre, j’avais préféré Le paysan parvenu de Marivaux, Point de lendemain de Vivant Denon, ou les aventures du chevalier de Seingalt par lui-même.
Les concubines qui le hantent, des femmes arrachés à tous les pays de l'Europe, de l'Asie et de l'Afrique, hors de la surveillance de leur maître, sautent sur l'occasion pour lui prodiguer les marques d'une accorte hospitalité, laquelle dérive bientôt en une complaisance insinuante accordant par degré menues privautés et badinages coquins. Notre héros, n’en revenant pas de sa bonne fortune et n’étant pas un imbécile, souffre sans peine ces petites agaceries contre la pudeur, et y répond promptement en allant de son propre chef là même où elles voulaient le mener, distribuant ses hommages avec autant d’équité que d’empressement. Pour ranimer les esprits languissants du héros comme l’intérêt du lecteur, chaque nouveau culte rendu aux mystères de l’Amour avec une nouvelle prêtresse est précédé d’une narration piquante de cette dernière, dans un tableau à chaque fois différent, propres à enflammer l’imagination et le corps.
La traductrice se flatte d’avoir mené le texte au dessus de lui-même, en substituant au vocabulaire répétitif de l’œuvre originale un plus varié, en accord avec l’usage du français. Je n’ai pas été favorablement impressionné par l’introduction, laquelle se borne à exposer des théories littéraires fumeuses dans un psittacisme dépourvu d’esprit critique, et impatiente finalement le lecteur faute de l'instruire. L’affirmation suivant laquelle l’intérêt pour les romans licencieux ne daterait que de l’époque victorienne me parait incroyable. Bref, rien de transcendant ici. Dans le genre, j’avais préféré Le paysan parvenu de Marivaux, Point de lendemain de Vivant Denon, ou les aventures du chevalier de Seingalt par lui-même.
November 19, 2011
An English sailor washes up on the coast of Morocco and finds sanctuary in a harem. He convinces each of the concubines to tell their stories of debauchery before diddling them all. Typical Victorian porn to be honest. The author didn't seem to know any other words beside crest for penis and sheath for vagina and I really didn't want to hear about sperm being balmy.
December 9, 2025
Should I be concerned about myself that I was feeling better to read this book after finishing 120 Days of S? The passion that I was longing for, and the admiration of the writing that was quite ambitious. This is what I meant by sensuality in terms of forbidden and taboo. This also can be described as a fun exploration, born of a wild imagination.
March 31, 2023
It's so over
March 13, 2018
In 2018, 'A Night in a Moorish Harem' and other classic erotica are in the public domain and free on the internet. Before Stanley v. Georgia, people were arrested for selling this - just one of many materials in a long history of book censorship and obscenity laws. What else can I say about this book other than that it is STRAIGHT UP Victorian erotica? If you want to know what kinks people were into in 1896, look no further.
October 29, 2022
Aristocratic British pervert smut. Excerpts:
>her big womb pressed against my crest
>I seemed to have changed my sex and to be a woman actually enjoying the thrusts of her paramour
>We pressed our bosoms together and we squeeze together the little mouths at our loins
>I responded by giving her a deep, prolonged thrust, then I braced my toes in the hot crevices where they rested and rammed my shaft completely home again and again (he's toeing pussies here)
>her big womb pressed against my crest
>I seemed to have changed my sex and to be a woman actually enjoying the thrusts of her paramour
>We pressed our bosoms together and we squeeze together the little mouths at our loins
>I responded by giving her a deep, prolonged thrust, then I braced my toes in the hot crevices where they rested and rammed my shaft completely home again and again (he's toeing pussies here)
August 21, 2024
Classic erotica indeed. Saucy fun picked up in a second hand book shop.
November 25, 2019
This is clearly better than the first book in writing and the art is a tie- a group of artists who all did well capturing the time and place of the flashbacks tasked to them.
The writing was better because the sex he was having in the present was barely illustrated and more-so implied. Why? One guy, no longer a young man, going from one women to the next as their stories were told to him and giving EACH a "tribute" with the kind of voracity he had in the first book is absurd to anyone who knows how these things work.
The greatness of the book itself, in original and adapted form, is the variance in stories of the women from around the world- the different customs, taboos and settings that make their flashbacks so interesting. The sex in their stories is far more interesting than his unavoidably repetitive repetitions in the harem.
This book did well to feature 8=Sir Stunt Cock=D-- revealing his personal lusty endeavors of youth- a disclosure by him was overdue and he did well in telling two. They were just as good as the women's stories and, being in the center of the book, set the tone for the final women's stories which came as a surprise to both him and the reader- I won't divulge the who or wheres of the women but I will say that the last one is the most interesting of all that have led to it in both books!
I found myself wondering, even more than I did during the first book, why they're under the "Amerotica" imprint of NBM instead the more fitting "Eurotica". Americans made it you say? Not quite- there were enough U.K. creators to call a book that was entirely European by it's more appropriate name.
The writing was better because the sex he was having in the present was barely illustrated and more-so implied. Why? One guy, no longer a young man, going from one women to the next as their stories were told to him and giving EACH a "tribute" with the kind of voracity he had in the first book is absurd to anyone who knows how these things work.
The greatness of the book itself, in original and adapted form, is the variance in stories of the women from around the world- the different customs, taboos and settings that make their flashbacks so interesting. The sex in their stories is far more interesting than his unavoidably repetitive repetitions in the harem.
This book did well to feature 8=Sir Stunt Cock=D-- revealing his personal lusty endeavors of youth- a disclosure by him was overdue and he did well in telling two. They were just as good as the women's stories and, being in the center of the book, set the tone for the final women's stories which came as a surprise to both him and the reader- I won't divulge the who or wheres of the women but I will say that the last one is the most interesting of all that have led to it in both books!
I found myself wondering, even more than I did during the first book, why they're under the "Amerotica" imprint of NBM instead the more fitting "Eurotica". Americans made it you say? Not quite- there were enough U.K. creators to call a book that was entirely European by it's more appropriate name.
June 10, 2023
An interesting project where a group of amazing cartoonists (Mark Bodé, Eddie Campbell, Colleen Doran, Stefano Gaudiano, Molly Kiely) adapt portions of a classic historical erotica. Written in 1904 by someone using the pseudonym "Lord George Herbert", the book entitled "A Night In A Moorish Harem" served as a bit of pulpy storytelling about a shipwrecked British captain who ends up in the company of a Moroccan harem with many concubines of different nationalities. Each woman recounts their own story to the sailor, and in this graphic novel, each cartoonist takes up the task of drawing said story. While the stories themselves were entertaining, they also sort of blur together narratively. But getting to see artists like Mark Bodé, Eddie Campbell, and Colleen Doran tackle erotica was pretty fun stuff. Definitely an enjoyable read overall.
December 16, 2017
Best leuk maar je merkt wel dat het meer dan 100 jaar geleden geschreven is.
Bedoeld als harde porno (alles wordt expliciet beschreven) maar leest als een keukenromannetje.
Onbegrijpelijk dat dit in New York gedurende 75 jaar verboden was en dat mensen in de gevangenis vlogen omdat ze het verkochten.
Bedoeld als harde porno (alles wordt expliciet beschreven) maar leest als een keukenromannetje.
Onbegrijpelijk dat dit in New York gedurende 75 jaar verboden was en dat mensen in de gevangenis vlogen omdat ze het verkochten.
January 30, 2010
Not close to the best of the era and genre.
May 18, 2015
The book overall was repetitive and uneven. Only a few of the stories at the end captured my attention, but at the time it was written and released, I can understand why it was scandalous.
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