Lady Beth

by Andrew J. Offutt, Anonymous, John Cleve (Editor)

The terrifying, sanguinary account of a young lady's abduction into slavery. No sooner does the lovely virgin meet her betrothed-- a British officer stationed on duty outside of Khartoum--than she and her entire entourage are captured in the desert by fierce nomads. Prized for her beauty and golden tresses, Lady Beth is forced to endure the erotic demands of feared and virile leaders. Stalwart throughout, and cunning enough to execute one of her captors, Lady Beth caters to their whims until the day arrives for her own escape.

214 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1984

About the author

Andrew Jefferson Offutt was an American science fiction and fantasy author. He wrote as Andrew J. Offutt, A.J. Offutt, and Andy Offut. His normal byline, andrew j. offutt, had his name in all lower-case letters. His son is the author Chris Offutt.

Offutt began publishing in 1954 with the story And Gone Tomorrow in If. Despite this early sale, he didn't consider his professional life to have begun until he sold the story Blacksword to Galaxy in 1959. His first novel was Evil Is Live Spelled Backwards in 1970.

Offutt published numerous novels and short stories, including many in the Thieves World series edited by Robert Lynn Asprin and Lynn Abbey, which featured his best known character, the thief Hanse, also known as Shadowspawn (and, later, Chance). His Iron Lords series likewise was popular. He also wrote two series of books based on characters by Robert E. Howard, one on Howard's best known character, Conan, and one on a lesser known character, Cormac mac Art.

As an editor Offutt produced a series of five anthologies entitled Swords Against Darkness, which included the first professional sale by Charles de Lint.

Offutt also wrote a large number of pornographic works under twelve different pseudonyms, not all of them identified. Those known include John Cleve, J.X. Williams, and Jeff Douglas. His main works in this area are the science fiction Spaceways series, most of whose volumes were written in collaboration, and the historical Crusader series.

Reviews

[Calliope]

Ok ,so I am not exactly sure how to rate this book.I suppose if it was just about the writing technique and so on then ok the writing is good in fact so descriptive you can actually see this playing out, now if that is a good thing or not ,I would say not.Only because the scenes playing out are so horrible you almost feel ashamed just reading them and feel you should turn away so as not to see anymore, and yet i so wanted to know the end of this oh so tragic and terrible tale and find out what eventually happens to this brave tortured woman.So I will not be rating this book just yet

This book is definitely not for the faint of heart or indeed anyone with a strong heart. For only adult audiences. Beware-rape and extreme sexual violence and gruesome and graphic descriptions. This book will make you cringe and look away even though there are no illustrations except in words.

[BRNTerri · Rating 4 out of 5]

Nineteen-year-old Lady Beth is traveling with her cousin Pamela and their two servants, Kitty, 23, and Rose, 18. Another servant was sent to help Beth, a very young girl named Zohara. They all get captured in the desert by a group of men and there is plenty of rape, most of which is anal, murder, lesbianism. One of the ladies meets a shockingly gruesome end. There are a few vile things that happen that I'm not comfortable even mentioning. Once the ladies are sold at auction, things tame down quite a bit when they settle in at their new home. They seem happy despite the situation.

Excessive brutality's the name of the game. There was so much violence in the first 138 pages and it almost ruined the book. All but the last 70 pages or so are very brutal. Time span is a year.

This old series from the 80's is pure erotica and this one is XXX hardcore. It's the only one I've ever seen (I think) that has an illustrated cover and I do love this cover.

[Susanne · Rating 3 out of 5]

Although billed as an anonymous Victorian novel, this book was really written in the 1980s. As such, I was expecting an ‘80s genre romance, something the cover art would seem to support.

I was wrong.

Very much an NC-17 story, with graphic depictions of sexual sadism and explicit violence, this is not a tale for the faint of heart. Or the faint of stomach.

The story zips along, though, and - long as it is - I didn't want to put it down. (Although I did skip certain bits.) It's written in what feels like an authentic Victorian voice, but the heroine is no wilting flower, and I stuck with it because I wanted to see her get her happy ending.