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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
其他書名
A Life in Letters
出版Fourth Estate, 2003
主題Biography & Autobiography / GeneralBiography & Autobiography / Literary FiguresBiography & Autobiography / RoyaltyBiography & Autobiography / Personal MemoirsBiography & Autobiography / LGBTQLiterary Collections / LettersLiterary Criticism / GeneralLiterary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, WelshLiterary Criticism / Drama
ISBN00071610349780007161034
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=AMxkAAAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋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volume Merlin Holland has brought together his most revealing letters with a helpful commentary and some previously unpublished photographs.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.