Ever since the collapse of the Tower of Babel, sex has been the common language uniting men and women throughout the world. Erotic prose is a universal phenomenon — as this revised new edition of the influential Mammoth volume gloriously demonstrates. Editor Maxim Jakubowski has cherry-picked the finest new writing from countries such France and Italy, both so fertile right now that they could fill their own volumes. This anthology features stories by Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek, Orange Prize-shortlisted Stella Duffy, plus ten previously uncollected tales.