The literary education you've always lusted for.

Fresh from the virtual pages of Nerve.com comes this collection of "naughty bits," an irreverent look into the steamy, scandalous side of literature past and present. With bite-sized salacious excerpts from the classics -- new and old -- each with a fresh, insightful introduction, The Naughty Bits presents the world's great books as you never thought you'd see them.

Includes naughty bits by:

Dante

D. H. Lawrence

Philip Roth

Goethe

Toni Morrison

Julio Cortázar

John Cheever

William Shakespeare

Thaddeus Rutkowski

John Donne

Thomas Malory

Günter Grass

Herman Melville

John Barth

Ernest Hemingway

Erica Jong

Thomas Carew

M. F. K. Fisher

William Kennedy

Jeanette Winterson

Paul West

Harry Mathews

Catullus

Clarice Lispector

Giovanni Boccaccio

James Baldwin

Nicholson Baker

Tom Wolfe

John Wilmot

Kevin Canty

Plato

James Joyce

Lydia Davis

François Rabelais

Kenneth Starr

Henry Miller

John Updike

Geoffrey Chaucer

Marquis de Sade

Sir Philip Sidney

Holly Hughes

Martin Amis

Andrew Marvell

The Pearl Poet

Thomas Pynchon

Sappho

William Gibson

Mark Leyner

Margery Kempe

Jean Genet

Edmund Spenser

John Cleland

Kurt Vonnegut

Anaïs Nin

Petronius

Keith Banner

Umberto Eco

J. G. Ballard

Mario Vargas Llosa

Ovid

Jean de Meun

Catherine Breillat

George Eliot

Kenzaburo Oe

Cormac McCarthy

Larry Flynt

Rupert Brooke

The Old Testament