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en-wikipedia-org-9611		Gay literature - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	11308	1432	70	Other notable works of the 1940s and 1950s include Jean Genet's semiautobiographical Our Lady of the Flowers (1943) and The Thief's Journal (1949),[77] Yukio Mishima's Confessions of a Mask (1949),[78] Umberto Saba's Ernesto (written in 1953, published posthumously in 1975),[79] and Giovanni's Room (1956) by James Baldwin.[80] Mary Renault's The Charioteer, a 1953 British war novel about homosexual men in and out of the military, quickly became a bestseller within the gay community.[81] Renault's historical novels The Last of the Wine (1956) — about Athenian pederasty in ancient Greece — and The Persian Boy (1972) — about Alexander the Great and his slave lover Bagoas — followed suit.[4][81] A Room in Chelsea Square (1958) by British author Michael Nelson — about a wealthy gentleman who lures an attractive younger man to London with the promise of an upper crust lifestyle — was originally published anonymously both because of its explicit gay content at a time when homosexuality was still illegal, and because its characters were "thinly veiled portrayals of prominent London literary figures."[35][82][83]	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9611.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9611.txt