The Second Gates of Paradise: The Anthology of Erotic Short Fiction

by Alberto Manguel (Editor)

In this volume of the eagerly-awaited sequel to Alberto Manguel's bestselling erotic anthology, a new selection of internationally distinguish authors, including Tennessee Williams and Dorothy Allison, offer more unforgettable tales of ecstasy and desire.

Genres: Erotica

692 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1994

About the author

Alberto Manguel (born 1948 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine-born writer, translator, and editor. He is the author of numerous non-fiction books such as The Dictionary of Imaginary Places (co-written with Gianni Guadalupi in 1980) and A History of Reading (1996) The Library at Night (2007) and Homer's Iliad and Odyssey: A Biography (2008), and novels such as News From a Foreign Country Came (1991).

Manguel believes in the central importance of the book in societies of the written word where, in recent times, the intellectual act has lost most of its prestige. Libraries (the reservoirs of collective memory) should be our essential symbol, not banks. Humans can be defined as reading animals, come into the world to decipher it and themselves.

Reviews

[Marla · Rating 3 out of 5]

This collection is fascinating in its depiction of the myriad ways humans choose to torment themselves and others through the physical expression of love. All the entries were written by accomplished authors and contain much more psychology than actual sex!