"The rare boys' adventure story that marked the first-ever gay young adult novel republished for the first time in over a century"
Edward Prime-Stevenson (1858-1942) has been described by one critic as "the first modern gay American author," and his novel "Imre: A Memorandum" (1906) has been cited as the first openly gay American novel. But fifteen years earlier, Stevenson published another milestone work, "Left to Themselves" (1891), a young adult novel described by its author as "homosexual in essence," the first such book ever published.
A thrilling, fast-paced boys' adventure...