MY SECRET LIFE: (Illustrated) - Softcover

Walter

Softcover

ISBN 10: 179769314X ISBN 13: 9781797693149

Publisher: Independently published, 2019

Synopsis

My Secret Life, by "Walter", is the memoir of a gentleman describing the author's sexual development and experiences in Victorian England. It was first published in a private edition of eleven volumes, at the expense of the author, including an imperfect index, which appeared over seven years beginning around 1888.The work itself is enormous, amounting to over one million words, the eleven original volumes amounting to over 4,000 pages. 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. According to Steven Marcus, it is virtually the only source for information on London's houses of prostitution, in which Walter spent many hours. It has been described as "one of the strangest and most obsessive books ever written".

Edition details

• Publisher: Independently published
• Publication date: 2019
• ISBN 10: 179769314X
• ISBN 13: 9781797693149
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 767