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''My Secret Life'', by "Walter", is the memoir of a Victorian gentleman's sexual development and experiences. It was first published in a private edition of eleven volumes, which appeared over seven years beginning around 1888. The work itself is enormous, amounting to over one million words,〔 the eleven original volumes amounting to over 4,000 pages. The text is repetitive and highly disorganised,〔For an analysis of the original edition's production and Walter's methods of composition, see Steven Marcus, ''The Other Victorians''.〕 but its frank discussion of sexual matters and other hidden aspects of Victorian life make it a rare and valuable social document. It has been described as "one of the strangest and most obsessive books ever written".〔Patrick J. Kearney (1982) ''A History of Erotic Literature''. Parragon: 127〕 ==Publishing, and bans== The first edition was probably printed by Auguste Brancart, in an impression of only 25 copies.〔 〕 In the twentieth century ''My Secret Life'' was pirated and reprinted in a number of abridged versions that were frequently suppressed for obscenity. In 1932, for example, a New York publisher was arrested for issuing the first three volumes. In the USA it was finally published without censorship in 1966 by Grove Press, but in 1969 a British printer, Arthur Dobson, was sentenced to two years' prison for producing a UK reprint. It was not until 1995 that the work in its entirety was published openly in the UK, by Arrow Books. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「My Secret Life (memoir)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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