The Olympia Reader  

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Grove Press in the U.S. printed The Olympia Reader, a best-selling anthology containing material from some of Olympia's most popular works, including material by Burroughs, Miller, Trocchi and others. Another well-known collection was The Best of Olympia, first published by the Olympia Press in 1963 and reprinted by New English Library in 1966.

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m Inhoud: The world of sex / Henry Miller -- I hear voices / Paul Ableman -- The adventures of Father Silas / Beauregard de Farniente -- Roman orgy / Marcus van Heller -- Stradella / James Sherwood -- The ginger man / J.P. Donleavy -- The black book / Lawrence Durrell -- The pleasure thieves / Harriet Daimler & Henry Crannach -- The young and evil / Charles Henri Ford & Parker Tyler -- Watt / Samuel Beckett -- Plexus / Henry Miller -- Fanny Hill / John Cleland -- Story of O / Pauline Réage ; translated by Sabine Destré -- Kama houri / Ataullah Mardaan -- The thief's journal / Jean Genet ; translated by Bernard Frechtman -- My life and loves / Frank Harris -- Candy / Maxwell Kenton -- The enormous bed / Henry Jones -- The gaudy image / William Talsman -- Justine / Marquis de Sade ; translated by Richard Seaver and Austryn Wainhouse -- Naked lunch / William S. Burroughs -- Young Adam / Frances Lengel -- Teleny / Anonymous -- Fuzz against junk / Akbar del Piombo -- Steiner's tour / Philip O'Connor -- Under the hill / Aubrey Beardsley & John Glassco -- The white paper / Anonymous -- A sad, ungraceful history of Lolita / Maurice Girodias -- Quiet days in Clichy / Henry Miller -- Sin for breakfast / Hamilton Drake -- The ticket that exploded / William S. Burroughs -- Houses of joy / Wu Wu Meng -- Pinktoes / Chester Himes -- The soft machine / Williams Burroughs -- Sexus / Henry Miller -- Zazie / Raymond Queneau ; translated by Akbar del Piombo and Eric Kahane -- Madame Edwarda / Georges Bataille ; translated by Austryn Wainhouse -- Our lady of the flowers / Jean Genet ; translated by Bernard Frechtman -- The woman thing / Harriet Daimler -- The American express / Gregory Corso -- The black diaries of Roger Casement / Maurice Girodias & Peter Singleton-Gates.