Thomas A. Copeland
Rosalynde or, Euphues' Golden Legacie
This novel, which Shakespeare adapted in his pastoral comedy As You Like It, is the archetypal pastoral adventure. Two young persons of high…
The Tables of the Law and The Adoration of the Magi
The first two tales involve the persona's relationship with a certain Aherne, who has come into possession of a beautiful book by Joachim of…
Imre: A Memorandum
This 1906 novel, published one year after Freud's first articles on homosexuality, may well be the first gay novel with a happy ending. In s…
Brittains Ida or Venus and Anchises
While hunting, the boy Anchises stumbles upon Venus's forest retreat and is so kindly entertained by the goddess that he becomes the proud f…
The Anniversary Poems
Elizabeth Drury, daughter of Donne's patron, Sir Robert Drury, died in 1610. A year later Donne laments her hyperbolically as the soul of th…
A Marriage Below Zero
By 1889, when A Marriage below Zero appeared, very few English novels had been published that contained even a hint of homoeroticism. The Pi…
Astrophel and Stella
Sonnet sequences, which these poems by Sidney made very popular in the Elizabethan age, reflected the Medieval motif of courtly love, whereb…
Tim: A Story of School Life
Young Tim, whose father is disappointed in him, forms a close friendship with an older boy, for whom his father conceives a strong dislike. …
Le Paradis Perdu
Comme Virgile a développé l’épopée à célébrer l’origine de sa propre patrie, Milton l’a ada…
Cecil Dreeme
The author of this gothic tale was one of the first Union soldiers to lose his life in the Civil War. His semi-autobiographical novel focuse…
The Counterfeiters
In Les Faux-monnayeurs André Gide examines the lives of several individuals and families in the Paris of 1925, following their interr…
Orlando Inamorato
This black-letter document from 1592 consists of the first three cantos of Book One of the Italian romance-epic of the same name of the prec…
The Story of Damon and Pythias
Damon, a Syracusan senator, is to be beheaded for treason, but the new king permits a general, Pythias, to pledge his own life for his frien…
The History of John Winchomb, Usually Called Jack of Newbury
This early novel, a collection of biographical tales about a nonfictional individual, a clothier, provides a rare glimpse of daily life in a…