Good thing or bad thing? Classic novels including Pride and Prejudice, Jane Eyre, and Sherlock Holmes will be republished by Total-E-Bound Publishing with added explicitly erotic content. This comes after the success of the Fifty Shades trilogy by E. L. James.

“The company said that it was “100% convinced” that there was a market for the racy versions of the 19th century novels by authors Charlotte Bronte and Jane Austen and that the spicing up of the much-loved books will introduce the classics to “a new generation of readers”…

In Wuthering Heights, heroine Catherine Earnshaw “enjoys bondage sessions” with Heathcliff while sleuth Sherlock Holmes has a sexual relationship with his sidekick Dr Watson in the new e-book…

The adult scenes will be penned by some of the 250 authors on the publisher’s books who write erotic romance.”