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Book Description Paperback. Condition: Good. The book has been read but remains in clean condition. All pages are intact and the cover is intact. Some minor wear to the spine. Seller Inventory # GOR004487228
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. The story of Oscar Wilde has usually been told in terms of hubris - as the story of a child of the gods, lavishly endowed with every talent except that of restraint. This biography, however, argues that there is a more prosaic explanation of his theatrical triumphs and social collapse: Wilde was a child not of the gods, but of the Victorians, and his tragedy was that he allowed himself to remain one. To understand what happened to Wilde it is important, Sheridan Morley asserts, to understand the climate in which he lived. By no means the cloistered, poetic hothouse in which early biographers were keen to place him, it was instead the commercial theatre and publishing world of 1890s London. A shrewd self-publicist with an eye for the headlines, Wilde had a journalist's sense of occasion, but he left behind him the mystery of how anyone with so well-developed a sense of his own image could have failed to see the trap he was preparing for himself. In this illustrated reappraisal of Wilde, his work, his life and his times, Morley seeks to unravel the enigma that has fascinated many thoughout the century since his death. The book has been read, but is in excellent condition. Pages are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. The spine remains undamaged. Seller Inventory # GOR005448539
Book Description Befriedigend/Good: Durchschnittlich erhaltenes Buch bzw. Schutzumschlag mit Gebrauchsspuren, aber vollständigen Seiten. / Describes the average WORN book or dust jacket that has all the pages present. Seller Inventory # M01862050341-G
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: As New. Unread and Unmarked. Seller Inventory # 012572
Book Description Condition: Good. Ships from the UK. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages. Seller Inventory # 10238483-6
Book Description Condition: Very Good. 160 pages. With plates. Slight wear to spine, covers and corners. Seller Inventory # 44221
Book Description paperback, fine condition, 160pp. 16 pages of photographs/ illustrations. Reappraisal of Wilde, his work, his life and times. Seller Inventory # 960
Book Description Paperback. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. 1997 Pavilion first edition first printing paperback; Very Good, clean ex-library copy, with plate and usual stamps; in removable protective plastic sleeve; UK dealer, immediate dispatch. Seller Inventory # 5at2t
Book Description Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. First Thus. An excellent, clean and tightly bound book. Black and white photographs. Size: 6" x 9". Seller Inventory # 005262