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Best-Loved Oscar Wilde
John Wyse Jackson (Ed.)
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Description for Best-Loved Oscar Wilde
Hardcover.
Those whom the gods love grow young. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), one of Ireland's most beloved writers, was a playwright, poet, novelist and author of fairy stories and political essays. A complex man with many sides, he was both a revolutionary thinker and a flamboyant dandy and man about town. His wit and razor-sharp observation made him the toast of society on both sides of the Atlantic before scandal and notoriety stripped him of his position and his freedom. Best-Loved Oscar Wilde gathers a ... Read more
Those whom the gods love grow young. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), one of Ireland's most beloved writers, was a playwright, poet, novelist and author of fairy stories and political essays. A complex man with many sides, he was both a revolutionary thinker and a flamboyant dandy and man about town. His wit and razor-sharp observation made him the toast of society on both sides of the Atlantic before scandal and notoriety stripped him of his position and his freedom. Best-Loved Oscar Wilde gathers a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2018
Publisher
O´Brien Press Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Dublin, Ireland
ISBN
9781788490771
SKU
9781788490771
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Ref
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About John Wyse Jackson (Ed.)
John Wyse Jackson was born in Kilkenny in 1953, and educated in Dublin. His previous works on Oscar Wilde are Aristotle at Afternoon Tea: the Rare Oscar Wilde and Wilde about St Louis, an account of Oscar's two days in the American city in 1882. Other books, either solo or in collaboration, include Myles Before Myles: a Selection of the ... Read more
Reviews for Best-Loved Oscar Wilde
elevates itself from the pack through beautiful graphic design. The book is divided into sections with stylized images that draws on some of the classic Art Nouveau and Aubrey Beardsley illustrations of Wilde's time. It's a lovely looking book, and one that may spur readers unfamiliar with Wilde's life to seek out a biography or his full-length work
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