Oscar Wilde: a Life in Letters
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Autor: Merlin Holland
Herausgeber: Fourth Estate
Druckort: London-New York
Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose 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 spontaneous, sparkling best. most brilliant. Fluent in style, these letters bear that most familiar of Wildean hallmarks - the lightest of touches for the most serious of subjects. He comments openly on his life and his work, from the early years of undergraduate friendship, through his year-long lecture tour in America as a striving young Professor of Aesthetics, to the short period of fame and success in the early 1890s, when he corresponded with many leading political, literary and artistic figures of the time. desert him. In this volume Merlin Holland has brought together his most revealing letters with a helpful commentary and some previously unpublished photographs. Together they form the closest thing we have to Wilde's own memoir.
Produkt-Zustand:
Exemplar in gutem Zustand. Schutzumschlag mit leichten Vergilbungen, Staubflecken und Gebrauchsspuren an den Kanten und Ecken. Schnitte vergilbt und mit Spuren von Staub. Seiten vergilbt, besonders an den Rändern. Englischer Text. Texte auf englisch. Buch in gutem Zustand.
ISBN -Code: 0007161034
EAN: 9780007161034
Seiten: XV, 384
Format: Gebunden mit Schutzumschlag
Größe (cm):
Höhe: 24
Breite: 16
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Erste Ausgabe. Englischer Text. Englischer Text.
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