Illustrated Anthologies of Great Writers: Oscar Wilde (Great Writers Series) - Hardcover

Rh Value Publishing

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0517142546 ISBN 13: 9780517142547

Publisher: Gramercy, 1995

Synopsis

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. Of all 19th-century letter writers Oscar Wilde is, predictably, one of the 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. Disgrace and imprisonment followed, but even in adversity his humour does not 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volume Merlin Holland has brought together his most revealing letters with a helpful commentary and some previously unpublished photographs.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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Robert Mighall is a former research fellow of Merton College, Oxford, and has been the editor of the Penguin Classics series. He now works as a consultant and writer in London. His publications include A Geography of Victorian Gothic Fiction and editions of Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray and Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Doctor Jekyll and Mr Hyde.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gramercy
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0517142546
• ISBN 13: 9780517142547
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 64