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Author | : Juliet Gardiner |
Publisher | : Batsford Books |
Total Pages | : 684 |
Release | : 2021-01-29 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1849946760 |
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"I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do anything one does. I lived on honeycomb." Oscar Wilde Although it is over 120 years since his infamous trial for indecency, Oscar Wilde has never held greater fascination for us. This packed illustrated biography tells the life of Oscar Wilde through his own words – private letters, poems, plays, stories and legendary witticisms. It includes his relationships with key artists and writers of the time, including John Ruskin, Charles Ricketts, and Lillie Langtry. It is illustrated throughout with paintings, engravings, contemporary photographs, cartoons and caricatures of Wilde and his social circle. With illustrations and paintings by Aubrey Beardsley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, James Whistler and Max Beerbohm, it is a beautiful evocation of the glittering fin de siecle word by its most fascinating wordsmith and aesthete. The book details Wilde's ruin after the trial and its outcome. The profundity of his writing from prison and exile form an epitaph, not only to his own life, but also for the era that carelessly delighted in it.
Author | : Juliet Gardiner |
Publisher | : Trafalgar Square Publishing |
Total Pages | : 164 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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From Library Journal: In this lavishly illustrated volume, English historian and author Gardiner uses Wilde's own words to delineate his life and times. What emerges is a picture of a man whom William Butler Yeats described as "the greatest talker of all time." Gardiner highlights Wilde's advocacy of aestheticism, his "search after the signs of the beautiful," which led him to renounce his conventional lifestyle and become an active homosexual. The final third of the book focuses on Wilde's tumultuous relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas and the scandal that resulted when "Bosie's" father, the Marquess of Queensbury, attacked Wilde's way of life. The volume is beset by a number of mechanical problems-quotations from original sources are awkwardly incorporated into the author's sentences, punctuation is at times faulty, and transitions not always smooth. Nonetheless, the book provides a good overview of Wilde's life; Gardiner acknowledges Richard Ellman's biography (Oscar Wilde, LJ 12/87) as the "fullest life possible." Suitable for public libraries with general literature collections.-Denise J. Stankovics.
Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Authors, Irish |
ISBN | : 9781857027815 |
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This edition marks the centenary of Oscar Wilde's death, and is the most complete ever to appear. It contains over 1500 of his letters, and anyone unfamiliar with Wilde as a correspondent will find it packed with unexpected delights. This magnificent collection is a major publishing event.
Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 1979 |
Genre | : Authors, English |
ISBN | : 9780192812186 |
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When Sir Rupert Hart-Davis's magnificent edition of The Letters of Oscar Wilde was first published in 1962, Cyril Connolly called it "a must for everyone who is seriously interested in the history of English literature - or European morals." From this edition, long out of print, Hart-Davis has culled a representative sample of the letters from each period of Wilde's life, "giving preference," as he says in his Introduction, "to those of literary interest, to the most amusing, and to those that throw light on his life and work." The long letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, known as De Profundis is printed in its entirety.
Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 408 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and fiction, yet it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost, his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his best. Here, they are collected, together with a commentary and photographs.
Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 1028 |
Release | : 1962 |
Genre | : Authors, Irish |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : G. J. Renier |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1937 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jane Austen |
Publisher | : Clarkson Potter Publishers |
Total Pages | : 168 |
Release | : 1991 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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Abundantly illustrated, this collection of Jane Austen's letters--the only collection that is illustrated--provides an entertaining glimpse into the novelist's life that will delight old fans and attract new ones. 120 full-color and 200 black-and-white illustrations.
Author | : Robert Harborough Sherard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1928 |
Genre | : Gay authors |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | : Bounty Books |
Total Pages | : 855 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780753724781 |
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This exclusive edition contains Oscar Wilde's complete stories, plays and poems, together with their original illustrations. His novel, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY, greeted on publication by a protest at its 'immoral' subject matter, is an ominous and fascinating story. Also included are the elegant, sparklingly witty dramas for which Wilde is best known, such as The Importance of Being Earnest and Lady Windemere's Fan. In addition, this volume gathers together all his poetry; his delightful collection of fairy tales, The Happy Prince and Other Stories and his witty, sophisticated stories such as Lord Athur Savile's Crime.