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Are we the only ones who blushed when we saw this ad in The New York Times Book Review this weekend? (Click image to see larger version)

Besides Darwin and Twain, what other classics can we expect to find in the Encyclopedia Britannica's Great Books of the Western World collection? Sacher-Masoch's Venus in Furs? The Story of O? Sonny Barger's Hell's Angel?

When did reading get so leathery?

Britannica.com [via NYTBR]