Venus in India DESIGN / EssaysVenus in India (1889) is an erotic novel by Charles Devereaux. Published pseudonymously, the novel is styled as the autobiography of its fictional author, a young British Cavalry officer whose deployment in India is filled with romantic escapades. The war in Afghanistan appeared to be coming to a close when I received sudden orders to proceed, at once, from England to join the First Battalion of my regiment, which was then serving there. I had just
the faces of those forgotten Alexandrians come to life: the Greeks
Van Vechten’s novel has been recognized as an important document of the Jazz Age
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interesting and comprehensive discussions of the occult sciences ever published