Violation of Taboo

by Donald Webster Cory (editor), Robert E.L. Masters (editor)

Includes passages from Thomas Mann, Somerset Maugham, nathaniel Hawthorne, Marguerite de Navarre, Giambattista Basile, Pierre Louys, Dylan Thomas, Maxim Gorky, Sophocles, John Ford,Herman Melville, Marquis de Sade, Leonhard Frank.

421 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1963

About the author

Donald Webster Cory is the pen name of Edward Sagarin, a professor of criminology and sociology at the City University of New York and author in 1951 of a groundbreaking study of homosexuality in the United States.