The Oyster

The Oyster was a journal published in Victorian England that celebrated, rather than vilified, the pleasures of the flesh. Displaying a delightfully uninhibited and erotic style, its author was forced to remain anonymous in order to avoid persecution. Copies of the journal were privately distributed, passed on like secrets from one parlour room to the next. The series was largely forgotten until an obscure edition was re-discovered in the 1980s - and the result was a literary sensation. With it's unexpected liveliness, wit, and - to this day - shock value - the much-aniticapted books V and VI are everything that readers have been waiting for.