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Conversations with Wilde - A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts (Hardcover, New edition)
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Conversations with Wilde - A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts (Hardcover, New edition)
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Renowned for his endlessly quotable pronouncements, Oscar Wilde cut
a dashing figure in late Victorian London ... until his tragic
downfall resulting from an ill-judged libel action. We remember him
not only for his famous trial and imprisonment, but also for a
"devil's dictionary" of timeless aphorisms and for the enduring
brilliance of plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest.
Wilde's life resembles his early short story, "The Remarkable
Rocket", which, rising from nowhere in a shower of sparks, explodes
and falls to earth, exclaiming as it goes out, "I knew I should
create a great sensation." Merlin Holland expertly traces the arc
of his illustrious ancestor's life, from his birth in Dublin in
1854 as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, to a brilliant career
at Oxford University where his reputation for dandyish wit was
first honed, through to his conquest of the drawing rooms and
theatres of fashionable London, culminating in disgrace and
imprisonment at the hands of the Marquess of Queensberry in the
most notorious libel trial in English history. Wilde died in penury
and obscurity in 1900, yet his reputation today has never been
greater. This engaging and innovative short book features a concise
biographical essay on Wilde's meteoric career, followed by a
Q&A interview based on Wilde's own words and Merlin Holland's
unrivalled knowledge of his grandfather's life, work and puckish
observations. This sparkling biography does full justice to Oscar
Wilde's writerly genius and irrepressible humanity. It offers
readers a renewed appreciation for a man who at times scandalised
his era as much as he delights our own.
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