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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
Individualisme en socialismeOscar Wilde3h 12m$1 · $0.00
De profundisOscar Wilde2h 16m$2 · $0.00
The Happy Prince, and Other TalesOscar Wilde2h 33m$2 · $0.00
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other StoriesOscar Wilde2h 31m$2 · $0.00
Oscar Wilde: Die ErzählungenOscar Wilde13h 55m$2 · $0.00
SaloméOscar Wilde2h 13m$2 · $0.00
The Happy Prince and Other TalesOscar Wilde2h 43m$2 · $0.00
Poems, with The Ballad of Reading GaolOscar Wilde2h 55m$2 · $0.00
The Oldest Gay NovelsOscar Wilde, Bayard Taylor, Virginia Woolf, Lucas Malet, Robert Hichens, Henry Blake Fuller, Radclyffe Hall, Jack Saul, Sheridan Le Fanu, Theodore Winthrop, Harlan Cozad McIntosh119h 45m$2 · $0.00
De profundisOscar Wilde4h 48m$2 · $0.00
El retrato de Dorian GrayOscar Wilde9h 2m$2 · $0.00
The Picture of Dorian GrayOscar Wilde8h 31m$2 · $0.00
IntentionsOscar Wilde6h 13m$2 · $0.00
TelenyOscar Wilde8h 3m$2 · $0.00
The Poetry of Oscar WildeOscar Wilde4h 43m$2 · $0.00
Salomé (Bilingual Edition: English-French)Oscar Wilde2h 34m$2 · $0.00
El príncipe felizOscar Wilde25m$12 · $0.00
Un marido idealOscar Wilde3h 39m$2 · $0.00
The Complete PoetryOscar Wilde5h 16m$2 · $0.00
Shōgun, Part TwoJames Clavell29h 16m$40
Searching For ThanksgivingS.E. Smith4h 24m$20
The InheritanceBlair Howard6h 40m$23
The Dance with Me TrilogyShelley Shepard Gray21h 44m$35
An Ex to Grind in DeadwoodAnn Charles13h 19m$23
The Captivating WarriorCami Checketts, Daniel Banner4h 8m$15
Sniffing Out JusticeCarol J. Post6h 28m$12 · $0.00
Swept Into LoveMelissa Foster8h 9m$23
TimberTate James15h 36m$23
The ReunionJana Deleon6h 31m$26 · $0.00
Long LostLexi Blake13h 12m$23
The Vineyard BrideKatie Winters5h 5m$15
Protecting The PackJulie Miller5h 43m$24 · $0.00
Something Like LoveBeverly Jenkins10h 21m$29 · $0.00
Wishes from the HeartSophie Mays4h 9m$15 · $0.00
Blizzard ShowdownShirlee McCoy5h 16m$12 · $0.00
The Heart of CourageLynne Basham Tagawa10h 57m$20
Love Inspired Suspense October 2025 - Box Set 2 of 2Laura Scott, Carrie Stuart Parks, Jennifer Pierce17h 34m$35 · $0.00
Talia Hibbert's Brown Sisters Book SetTalia Hibbert31h 7m$53 · $0.00
To Hold and ProtectSandra Owens7h 59m$8 · $0.00
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