Charles Gorham

Charles Orson Gorham (1911-1975) was WWII veteran and the author of many controversial & highly praised novels, including The Gilded Hearse, The Future Mr. Dolan, and Martha Crane. He worked as publicity director for Doubleday Books.

Books by Charles Gorham

Banned 2: Three "Indecent" Novels Censored by the Courts

A collection of three long-lost novels that were censored or banned when they were originally published.
ANY MAN'S PLAYMATE * CARLOTTA McBRIDE * THE BAWDY MRS. GREY

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The Charles Gorham Reader: Four Full Novels

Four powerful novels by Charles Gorham, out of print for decades, now collected in a single ebook edition.

"Gorham's novels, literary works with pot-boiler topics (prostitution, alcoholism, street crime), were known for their bluntness and realism." Michael Bronski, Pulp Friction

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Wine of Life

The monumental and unparalleled fictionalized biography of Honoré de Balzac – a volcanic talent, a savage libertine and one of the greatest literary figures of all time. This is Balzac’s incredible life story, from cradle-to-grave, from obscurity to fame, set against the dramatic, vividly-portrayed backdrop of 19th century France, shared from the point of view of the people closest to him.

“This book is big in every way and readers of romance, history and biography will all find this a heady literary drink, truly a wine of life.” Pensacola News-Journal

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Carlotta McBride

Charles Gorham's acclaimed, controversial and banned novel, lost for over sixty years, is finally back in print.

Who is Carlotta McBride? In the swank nightclubs of New York, Hollywood and Paris, she is the beautiful and brilliant star of stage and screen... but in the dark, lurid dive bars and dark alleys of those same cities, she is promiscuous and self-destructive, slowly killing herself with alcohol, drugs, and risky sex. She is a woman seared and haunted by trauma in her past that she can't escape, whether it's in the fantasy world of acting, or at the bottom of a whisky bottle, or in the arms of a brutal man. The only person who can save her is herself...but to do it, she will have to confront a shocking truth.

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Trial by Darkness

“This is a brilliant book written by a brilliant man who has no fear expressing his ideas.” Birmingham News

This is the driving, compassionate story of a young man's coming of age, a well-born rebel who defies his family’s two hundred years of aristocratic tradition…and flees the horrors that churn beneath its tranquil surface.

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McCaffery

Finally back in print! This ground-breaking, controversial novel, banned in Australia and other countries for it's "homosexual references," was the dream acting/directing project of actor Sal Mineo, who was tragically murdered only hours after learning the movie would finally be made.

Vincent McCaffery is bright, good-looking, and gifted teenage hustler who seduces both men and women for money. He moves from a NY tenement into a plush Greenwich Village brothel, hoping to make it rich, but he falls in love with a prostitute and then plunges into a world of decadence and violence when an older man becomes obsessed with him.

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