Title: Imre
Subtitle: A Memorandum
First published: 1975
Description: Early moving novel about the meeting of two gay men who gradually fall in love and wind up happily together: a shocker for 1906. Described by the author as "a little psychological romance", the narrative follows two men who by chance meet at a cafe in Budapest, Hungary. 

Both Oswald, a 30-something British aristocrat, and Imre, a 25-year-old Hungarian military officer, are "insistently masculine types tempered by a love of art". Over the course of several months they forge a friendship that leads to a series of cautious revelations and disclosures, and ultimately love.
Subjects: Fiction, Gay men, Male friendship, Fiction, gay, World war, 1914-1918, fiction, American literature, LGBTQ fiction before Stonewall
Places: Budapest (Hungary), Budapest
Time periods: 1900
LC classification: PS