Description:The Exile of Capri was first published in 1959, and it at once become a great and very influential classic of gay literature. It takes the form of a biography of Count Jacques d'Adelsward-Fersen, the most notorious libertine of pre-1914 Europe, under whose patronage Capri became a refuge for the sexually persecuted. A host of giant figures throng the pages of this witty, compassionate and brilliantly funny book.