Did you know that Oscar Wilde may (or may not have) co-written an erotic novel first published in 1893? It’s real, it’s bonkers, and it’s in the public domain so nobody can stop me from putting it out as a zine, apparently!
Wikipedia says:
“Set in fin de siècle Paris, its concerns are the magnetic attraction and passionate though ultimately tragic affair between a young Frenchman named Camille Des Grieux and the Hungarian pianist René Teleny. The novel is one of the earliest pieces of English-language pornography that focuses explicitly and near-exclusively on homosexuality (following The Sins of the Cities of the Plain, published in 1881). 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.”
104 pages, half-letter size, saddle-stitched (stapled).
A digital version of sheer spite’s edition is available here, you can also read it for free online!
![Harm Reduction, Morality, and Getting (Un)Sober [Grounding Wire #1] zine, printed on white paper with a high-contrast image of the earth as seen from the surface of the moon](https://sheerspite.ca/wp-content/uploads/2024/12/DSCF3600-Medium.png)
