PART TWO OF VICTORIAN CLASSIC OF AMOUR IN THE NEAR EAST When he is drafted to help free the Afghan people from oppression by piratical warlords, Captain Charles Devereaux finds himself spending as much time in sexual skirmishes with the wives and daughters of his fellow officers as in what seem at first more dangerous skirmishes with the enemy. This uninhibited portrait of the sexual peccadilloes of Victorian British soldiers abroad has become recognized as one of the great classics of erotic literature. First Devereaux diddles with Elisabeth, a sex-starved wife whose husband is away at the front, and who initiates the young officer into practices he never dreamed of. Soon, he is in bed with both his commander's daughters in a series of epic couplings unrivaled in erotic literature. But when he learns that his own wife has had an affair, Deveraux's reactions lays bare the sexual hypocrisies of prudes of every era. Venus in India is a masterpiece of erotica not soon to be forgotten.