Teleny : a novel
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Teleny : a novel
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Description
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This sexually explicit “Physiological Romance” was first published by pornographer Leonard Smithers in 1893 in a two-volume edition of 200 copies, anonymously and with a false place of publication to deter Victorian censors. Although ‘Teleny’ may have been produced collaboratively, strong hints that Oscar Wilde was at least the principal author were already circulating. It has been attributed to Wilde since the Olympia Press edition of 1954. ‘Teleny’ continued to be reprinted in expurgated editions over the course of the twentieth century. The Gay Sunshine Press edition is, according to editor Winston Leyland, “the first unexpurgated version in English based on the original manuscript”.
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