abstract:Erotic literature comprises fictional and factual stories and accounts of human sexual relationships which have the power to or are intended to arouse the reader sexually.Hyde (1964) p.
For a country that considers itself the cradle of eroticliterature, the seduction of French readers by the English author Erika Leonard James, seems an aberration.
At the same time he read freely in his father's library, devouring all the French classics alongside explicit eroticliterature, which was to feed his precocious interest in sex.