Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter 1
2. Contents 7
3. Acknowledgements 9
4. Introduction 11
5. The English Bibles 23
6. Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Fanny Hill) 41
7. The Witlings 57
8. Queen Mab 73
9. The History of Mary Prince 89
10. Leaves of Grass 103
11. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn 115
12. The Soil 127
13. The Picture of Dorian Gray 145
14. The Well of Loneliness 157
15. Ulysses 175
16. Lady Chatterley's Lover 191
17. The Land of Spices 203
18. Black Boy 215
19. ‘The Orphan’, Shock SuspenStories No. 14 229
20. Lolita 247
21. OZ 28: Schoolkids Edition 259
22. Black Voices from Prison 275
23. ‘The Love that Dares to Speak its Name’ in Gay News 287
24. Jenny Lives with Eric and Martin 305
25. The Satanic Verses 317
26. Hit Man 337
27. Beijing Coma 351
28. Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood 363
29. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza 381
30. Afterword 401
31. Index 409