The complete online text of Erotica Romana by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is widely recognized as the greatest writer of the German tradition. The Romantic period in Germany (the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) is known as the Age of Goethe, and Goethe embodies the concerns of the gen...

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe is widely recognized as the greatest writer of the German tradition. The Romantic period in Germany (the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries) is known as the Age of Goethe, and Goethe embodies the concerns of the gen...

The German poet, dramatist, novelist, and scientist Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832), who embraced many fields of human endeavor, ranks as the greatest of all German poets. Of all modern men of genius, Goethe is the most universal. The many-sided a...

When it comes to sexual imagery, it is widely presumed that women like it soft while men like it hard. So men like pornography and women like something we vaguely call "erotica". Men like to see while women like to feel, so men...

I'm a relatively new murder-mystery author who tries to get herself known by driving to bookstores and libraries all over the state to read pretty tame passages that include remarkably little violence and no graphic sex. I bring a carton of books with...