Teleny: A Victorian Gay Romance possibly by Oscar Wilde (paperback)

There are some versions of available on Amazon, but the text in the version I looked at uses em-dashes in place of quotation marks around dialogue. Which, I know that's a thing, but...

This is a simple but hopefully more readable paperback version, using text provided from Wikisource, priced as inexpensively as possible (use discount code off-amazon for a further 10% discount). You can also get a free ebook version here on Gumroad.

, is a pornographic novel first published in London in 1893.

Set in fin-de-siècle Paris, its concerns are the magnetic attraction and passionate though ultimately tragic affair between a young Frenchman named Camille de Grieux and the Hungarian pianist René Teleny. Its lush and literate, though variable prose style and the relative complexity and depth of character and plot development share as much with the Aesthetic fiction of the period as with its typical pornography.

The authorship of the work is unknown. There is a general consensus that it was an ensemble effort, but it has often been attributed to Oscar Wilde.

CONTENT NOTES from T.C. Mill: Victorian erotica could be a pretty wild creature. Be aware this book contains, alongside its lush and sensuous delights, some distressing scenes plus topics you probably wouldn't expect from a modern gay historical novel or romance. These include period-typical misogyny, pressured and/or coerced sex with non-leading characters, heterosexual sex scenes, and death by suicide.