Kin Ping Meh

The Chinese merchant Hsi Men loves luxury, excess, all the pleasures of physical love - and especially women. This brings him not only pleasure, but also his complete downfall.
For his fifth wife Pan Jinlian, also called Golden Lotus, tries to gain control over his entire household including four other wives and several concubines and pulls out all the stops of seductive power to do so ...
A sensual classic of world literature, which after its publication in the 16th century was almost immediately put on the index of forbidden writings, but since then has enjoyed uninterruptedly a large, worldwide readership and even today, 600 years later, has lost nothing of its erotic radiance and plump lust for life.