The Fifty Shades of Grey effect: Mr Darcy gets erotic makeover

Mr Darcy will become a predatory seducer in a raunchy revamp of Pride and Prejudice thanks to a new series of X-rated classics, capitalising on the success of Fifty Shades of Grey

Mr Darcy will become a predatory seducer in a raunchy revamp of Pride and Prejudice thanks to a new series of X-rated classics, capitalising on the success of Fifty Shades of Grey.

The X-rated collection, called Clandestine Classics, is aimed to spice up the likes of Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights for a new generation of readers.

In the series of erotic rewrites, Jane Austen’s heroic English gentleman Mr Darcy tempts Elizabeth Bennet into a number of saucy clandestine meetings, while Sherlock Holmes and his right-hand man Dr Watson will be outed as gay lovers.

Elsewhere, Jane Eyre and Mr Rochester will even indulge in a spot of bondage (no, we can't quite believe it either!).

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The reworkings follow the success of the Fifty Shades trilogy by British writer E. L James - the story of a sizzling sexual relationship between a graduate and young businessman that has sold millions worldwide.

Published by Total-E-Bound, the new X-rated classics ebooks will keep the original prose of the novels, but have steamy scenes woven into them in the hope of attracting a new wave of readers.

Claire Siemaszkiewicz, founder of Total-E-Bound Publishing, said: ‘I've often wondered whether the Bronte sisters, if they were alive today, would have gone down the erotic romance route. There's a lot of underlying sexual tension in their stories.’

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In other titles in the series, classics such as Treasure Island, Phantom of the Opera and The Three Musketeers will feature spiced-up adult content, including everything from ménage a trois to BDSM.

Fifty Shades of Grey has been such a worldwide hit that it is soon set to be transformed into a big budget movie, with the likes of Hollywood heartthrobs Robert Pattinson, Ryan Gosling and Ian Somerhalder all hotly-tipped to play S&M enthusiast Christian Grey.

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