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Jack Saul is a handsome young man in London, who has found his body
to be his best asset and makes his way through life as a
prostitute. One day, Jack is picked up by a male customer in
Leicester Square, and after their encounter, the man offers to pay
Jack for a written account of his experiences. What follows is The
Sins of the Cities of the Plain, a narrative tracing in explicit
detail the development of Jack's "vices" as he progresses from
boarding school and into young adulthood amidst London's thriving
but clandestine gay underworld.
Featuring a mixture of fact and fiction and incorporating
real-life personages involved in the Cleveland Street Scandal, the
Oscar Wilde trials, and other infamous legal proceedings of the
period, The Sins of the Cities of the Plain was one of the first
and frankest works on homosexuality in Victorian England. Read by
Oscar Wilde and an influence on the more famous gay erotic novel
Teleny (1893), The Sins of the Cities of the Plain was privately
printed in two volumes in 1881 and is completely unobtainable
today. This new edition contains the unabridged text of the first
edition housed at the British Library, together with a new
introduction by Wolfram Setz and a facsimile reproduction of the
original volumes' title pages. Although two previous modern
editions have been published under this title, they are severely
altered and rewritten versions of the story; this edition marks the
first complete reprinting of the original text.
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