{"product_id":"9780987095664","title":"White Stains the Literary Remains of George Archibald Bishop a Neuropath of the Second Empire","description":"Written by magician and occultist Aleister Crowley and published clandestinely in 1898, White Stains is a collection of verse tracing the demise of a fictitious poet, George Archibald Bishop. His biography is given in the Preface. Crowley wrote White Stains as a refutation of the psychiatrist and pioneering sexologist Richard von Krafft-Ebing's contention in Psychopathia Sexualis that sexual perversions are a consequence of disease. Crowley's verse, which is modelled on Decadent and Symbolist poetry, explores a range of ostensible sexual aberrations. Excerpts from several poems appear in another clandestine classic, Raped on the Railway (c. 1899).\u003cp\u003eWhite Stains was published by the London-based publisher Leonard Smithers. It was printed, in Amsterdam, on hand-made paper, in a limited edition of 100 copies. Many of these are supposed to have been destroyed by British customs officials in 1924.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCrowley revised and extended White Stains' pseudo-biographical project in his wildly inventive black parody of literary erotica, Snowdrops from a Curate's Garden (c. 1904). \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSnowdrops from a Curate's Garden and Raped on the Railway are available from Birchgrove Press.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Birchgrove Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47035810447600,"sku":"9780987095664","price":13.5,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780987095664_p0.jpg?v=1763892349","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780987095664","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}