Havelock Ellis Collection - Sexual Inversion (Annotated)

By: Havelock Ellis, John Addington Symonds

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

This is a new edition of “Sexual Inversion,” originally published in 1915 by F. A. Davis Company, Publishers, of Philadelphia. Part of Adeptio’s “The Best of Havelock Ellis Collection,” from the “Unforgettable Classic Series,” this is not a facsimile reprint. Obvious typographical errors have been carefully corrected and the entire text has been reset and redesigned by Adeptio Editions to enhance readability, while respecting the original edition. The eBook edition was designed in an elegant style and set to take full advantage of the readers’ features. “Sexual Inversion” was the first English medical textbook on the topic of homosexuality. The book became a part of Ellis’s six-volume “Studies in the Psychology of Sex.” Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds agreed to collaborate on a new study that would combine Symonds's historical analysis on homosexuality with Ellis's experience with medical and scientific theory. Symonds died in 1893 before the book was concluded. “Sexual Inversion” was first published in German in 1896 (Leipzig, by Georg H. Wigand's Verlag) entitled “Das Konträre Geschlechtsgefühl,” under Havelock Ellis and John Addington Symonds. Ellis further revised the text and edited several of Symonds's contributions, with almost every page being rewritten or enlarged. This is the third edition. “Sexual Inversion” is considered one of Havelock’s masterpieces and helped establish Havelock’s reputation throughout the world. About the Havelock Ellis: Havelock Ellis was a social activist, a physician and a psychologist, whose best-known works concern sexuality and criminology. Among his over forty books, in 1890 he published “The Criminal,” a remarkable work on criminal anthropology. In the same year, he published “The New Spirit,” a collection of literary essays on Diderot, Heine, Whitman, Ibsen, and Tolstoy, and Ellis’s attempt to synthesize science and religious mysticism. In 1898 he wrote “Affirmations,” which contains essays on Nietzsche, Casanova, Zola, Huysmans, and St. Francis. In 1897, he published “Sexual Inversion,” the first medical text in English about homosexuality, which he had co-authored with John Addington Symonds in an earlier edition, and which became a part of Ellis’s six-volume “Studies in the Psychology of Sex.” In 1922, he published “Little Essays of Love and Virtue,” which aimed primarily at young people, youths and girls at the period of adolescence, who were in the author’s thoughts in all the studies he wrote of sex because he was of that age when he first vaguely planned them. These titles are part of our “Unforgettable Classic Series: The Best of Havelock Ellis Collection.” About John Addington Symonds: John Addington Symonds was born in Bristol, England, in 1840. He was an English poet, an author of several works, and a literary critic. In 1873 he wrote “A Problem in Greek Ethics” (also published in the Immortal Literature Series), which discussed homosexuality between men. He printed ten copies in 1883, before effectively publishing the book in 1901. He was also known for his work on the Renaissance, as well as for his translations and biographies. He wrote “Our Life in the Swiss Highlands” (1891), biographies of Philip Sidney (1886), Ben Jonson (1886) and Michelangelo (1893), several volumes of poetry and essays, and a translation of