Oscar Wilde: a Life in Letters

Edited by: Merlin Holland

Code: LISTBI0165206

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Edited by: Merlin Holland

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Oscar Wilde: a Life in Letters

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Publisher:  Fourth Estate

Place of printing:  London - New York

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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volume Merlin Holland has brought together his most revealing letters with a helpful commentary and some previously unpublished photographs.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.

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Specimen in good condition. Dust jacket with slight yellowing, dust spots and signs of wear at the edges and corners. Cuts yellowed and with traces of dust. Pages yellowed, especially at the edges. English text. Text in english. Book in good condition.

ISBN Code:  0007161034

EAN:  9780007161034

Pages:  XV, 384

Format:  Hardback with dust jacket

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  24
Width:  16

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First edition. English text. English text.

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