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Teleny (Summarized Edition)
Enriched edition. A Victorian tale of forbidden desire in 19th-century Paris - an LGBTQ+ romance of passion, deception, and defiance of societal normsBy Oscar Wilde
Length2h 43m
About this audiobook
Teleny narrates the erotic obsession between the bourgeois narrator Camille Des Grieux and the pianist René Teleny in a sensuous, surveilled Paris. Its musical prose marries synesthetic detail to Decadent imagery, tracing a magnetism that deepens into catastrophe. Mixing Gothic intensities with boudoir candor, the novel probes secrecy, class, and the price of pleasure, standing as one of the earliest sustained homosexual love stories in English. Long attributed to Oscar Wilde—and perhaps to collaborative work within his circle—the book bears his aesthetic creed: art as supreme reality, beauty as ethic, wit edged with cruelty. Wilde's immersion in Parisian Decadence, his musical friendships, and his experience of coded queer sociability converge here, as did clandestine publishing with Leonard Smithers. Read beside Dorian Gray, it refracts desire, duplicity, and reputation through unabashed erotic frankness. Recommended to readers of queer history, Victorian studies, and Decadence: not mere pornography, but an audacious experiment in style and sentiment. Approach it for historical candor and disquieting beauty; stay for its testimony to love's peril and persistence under prohibition.
Quickie Classics summarizes timeless works with precision, preserving the author's voice and keeping the prose clear, fast, and readable—distilled, never diluted. Enriched Edition extras: Introduction · Synopsis · Historical Context · Author Biography · Brief Analysis · 4 Reflection Q&As · Editorial Footnotes.
Audiobook details
GenreRomance
Length2 hrs 43 mins
Narrated byListen with 1,000+ voices
FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateJan 10, 2026
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1Introduction
5Author Biography
2Introduction
6Teleny: a pornographic novel attributed to Oscar Wilde
3Synopsis
7Analysis
4Historical Context
8Reflection
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