My Secret Life - Volumes I to III - By An Anonymous Author.....
In 1932, for example, a New York publisher was arrested for issuing the first three volumes..
In the twentieth century My Secret Life was pirated and reprinted in a number of abridged versions that were frequently suppressed for obscenity.
It has been described as "one of the strangest and most obsessive books ever written." The first edition was probably printed by Auguste Brancart, in an impression of only 25 copies.
The text is repetitive and highly disorganised, but its frank discussion of sexual matters and other hidden aspects of Victorian life make it a rare and valuable social document.
The work itself is enormous, amounting to over one million words, the eleven original Volumes amounting to over 4, 000 pages.
It was first published in a private edition of eleven volumes, which appeared over seven years beginning around 1888.
My Secret Life, by "Walter," is the memoir of a gentleman describing the author\'s sexual development and experiences in Victorian England.
My Secret Life - Volumes I to III - By An Anonymous Author....
