THE GREEN CARNATION,1907,R.S. HICHENS,RARE,HOMOSEXUAL

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Here is a rare reprint of a Scandalous novel parodying the Aesthetic Movement, originally published anonymously by D. Appleton and Company in 1894, featuring characters based on Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas. The original book was withdrawn from circulation in 1895 at the end of the aesthetic movement, and due to its gay/homosexual undertones. This is an early vintage reprint published in New York by Mitchell Kennerley; itself also quite scarce. My attributed publishing date is based on the advertisements at rear, for thirteen books all published by 1907. Not much information was found other than that, after an internet search. The book was a scandalous read about gay and homosexual men, see review below: Book Summary of The Green Carnation An audacious, comic fantasy, satirizing the ways of society, and parodying the mannerisms of certain popular writers. Gay men in turn-of-the-century Paris wore green carnations in their buttonholes. On a visit to Egypt in the winter of 1893-1894 for his health, Hichens met Lord Alfred Douglas and was introduced by him to Oscar Wilde, who was already the most renowned author of his age. Hichens returned to England and wrote The Green Carnation---epigrammatic and keenly satirical in tone---as a parody of Wilde's style, with Douglas burlesqued as Reggie Hastings and Wilde portrayed as Esme read more

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