The Selman-Troytt Papers: The Bizarre Life and Times of a Top Victorian Expert on Sex and Other Matters of High Importance

“Crushed testicles, torn scrotums, a waiter who is set on fire ‘to prove it could be done,’ The Selman-Troytt Papers is positively Beckettian. . . . Clever, eccentric—a bit like Flann O’Brien on a nasty day—and focussed on the lower half of the body.”—The Independent