Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal

Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal

Teleny, or, The Reverse of the Medal, is a pornographic novel, first published in London in 1893. The authorship of the work is unknown. There is a general consensus that it was an ensemble effort, but it has often been attributed to Oscar Wilde. Set in fin-de-siècle Paris, its concerns are the magnetic attraction and passionate though ultimately tragic affair between a young Frenchman named Camille de Grieux and the Hungarian pianist René Teleny. The novel is significant as one of the earliest pieces of English-language pornography to explicitly and near-exclusively concern...
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Author:Oscar Wilde
Genre:Novel, Fiction, Pornography
Year published:1893
Number of editions:4

Author of Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal

Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900
Birthplace:Dublin

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his...
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Additional works by Oscar Wilde
BookCopyright DateGenre
The Picture of Dorian Gray 1891 Gothic fiction
Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde Anthology
The Canterville Ghost Fiction
The Happy Prince and Other Stories 1888 Children's literature
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
A House of Pomegranates
The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Rise of Historical Criticism
Vera; or, The Nihilists
The Duchess of Padua
Lady Windermere's Fan
An Ideal Husband
A Florentine Tragedy
Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde June 1990 Speculative fiction
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Verhalen
Remorse
La Tragedia de Mi Vida
Lōrt Artʻěr Sēvayli ochirě
El Gigante Egoista Y Otros Relatos Magistrales
El retrato de Dorian Gray
Erzählungen und Märchen
A Florentine Tragedy, A Fragment And Other Works
poems and fairy tales of Oscar Wilde
Works
prionsa sona
Sixteen letters from Oscar Wilde
wit & wisdom of Oscar Wilde
Essays and lectures
Poems & essays
Fantome de Canterville, Le
Obraz Doriana Graye
Agadot
Plays, prose writings, and poems
Poems with the Ballad of reading goal
chant du cygne
Charmides and other poems
La vérité des masques
trial of Oscar Wilde
L'Eventail de Lady Windermere
Comedies
Prozagedichten
ritratto di Dorian Gray
graveco de la fideli^go
La Ballade de la geôle de Reading
La Chispa de Oscar Wilde
Selected Poems
Encantos
Table Talk Oscar Wilde
Decorative art in America
plays of Oscar Wilde
Collinsgem Wilde anthology
Works of Oscar Wilde
Five famous plays
Gairdín an Fhathaigh
uncollected Oscar Wilde
Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Novels and fairy tales of Oscar Wilde
Two plays
A Pantasma De Canterville
Panthea, and other poems
Berneval
Cuentos De Oscar Wilde
Ravenna
Salomé
El Cuadro De Dorian Gray / The Picture of Dorian Gray
For love of the king
Roses and rue
wisdom of Oscar Wilde
Art and morality
Ell Retrato De Dorian Gray
Le déclin du mensonge
Letters
pictvre of Dorian Gray
Wilde. Sämtliche Werke in sieben Bänden
Wilde v. Whistler
tuchthuis ballade
writings of Oscar Wilde
fairy tales of Oscar Wilde
Gespenst von Canterville
critic in Pall Mall
The Portrait of Mr. W. H. Novel
teacher of wisdom
Teatro Completo
Balada de la cárcel de Reading
El Ruisenor y La Rosa
Aristotle at afternoon tea
Baliada pro Redings'ku tiurmu
Essays, Criticisms, and Reviews
harlot's house, and other poems
definitive four-act version of the importance of being earnest
house of judgment and three other prose poems
Mi-maʻamakim
Erzaehlungen Und Maerchen Gedichte In Pr
ruiseñor y la rosa y otras cuentos
Salomé & other plays
anniversaire de l'infante
balade fun Reding-ṭurme
Intentions
Salome - Bajo El Monte
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Literary Genres

Novel
Novel

A novel is a book of long narrative in literary prose. The genre has historical roots both in the fields of the medieval and early modern romance and...
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Fiction
Fiction

Fiction is the form of any narrative or informative work that deals, in part or in whole, with information or events that are not factual, but...
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Pornography
Pornography

Pornography or porn is the explicit portrayal of sexual subject matter. Pornography may use a variety of media, including books, magazines,...
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Frequently Asked Questions

  • Q:
    When was the title "Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal" first published?
  • A:
    The book was first distributed in 1893.
  • Q:
    "Teleny or The Reverse of the Medal" is of which literary genre?
  • A:
    The written work is classified as: Novel and Fiction.

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