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"Virginia Woolf's Orlando, 'the longest and most charming love letter in literature,' playfully constructs the figure of Orlando as the fictional embodiment of Woolf's close friend and lover, Vita Sackville-West. Spanning thee centuries of boisterous, fantastic adventure, the novel opens as Orlando, a young nobleman in Elizabeth's England, awaits a visit from the Queen and traces experiences with first love as England, under James I, lies locked...
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aConstance Chatterley, married to an aristocrat and mine owner whose war wounds have left him paralyzed and impotent, has an affair with Mellors, a gamekeeper, becomes pregnant, and considers abandoning her husband. One of the seminal class novels of the twentieth century, Lady Chatterley's Lover was considered flagrantly pornographic when it was first published in 1928.
12) The sixth form
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When seventeen-year-old Ethan Whitley attends an elite New England prep school, he is invited into a world of privilege and desire where he discovers the price of betrayal when he is drawn into an investigation of the death of another student.
15) Maurice: a novel
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Set in the elegant Edwardian world of Cambridge undergraduate life, this story by a master novelist introduces us to Maurice Hall when he is fourteen. We follow him through public school and Cambridge, and into his father's firm. In a highly structured society, Maurice is a conventional young man in almost every way-except that he is homosexual. Written during 1913 and 1914, immediately after Howards End, and not published until 1971, Maurice was...
16) The spell
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The amours and intrigues of four sophisticated homosexuals in Britain, two of whom are father and son. Witty conversations and steamy sex by the author of The Swimming Pool Library.
19) Pembroke Park
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When Lady Joanna Sinclair meets Lady Diana March, on horseback and clad in male attire, she is outraged by such bizarre and unacceptable behavior. Still, she is irresistibly drawn to the headstrong Diana, under whose influence she asserts her independence from her arrogant and overbearing brother, Hugo. But in England's regency period, to love one's own sex was a risk taken only by the most daring.
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A novelization of the life of the 16th Century playwright, Christopher Marlowe, portraying him as a spy for Elizabeth I's government in its war with Catholics. Lots of color on Elizabethan London, the court, the intrigues, the theater, the slums. The author's last book before his death, it comes 30 years after his Nothing Like the Sun, a novel on Shakespeare.