With an introduction by J. H. Stape, St. Mary s University College, Strawberry Hill. Written in 1910 and first privately published in New York in 1916, Frank Harris s Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions gained almost instant notoriety. Attacked by critics for its extravagant inventions, vigorously defended by George Bernard Shaw and hauled into court for libel by Wilde s friend and lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, Harris s biography was published in England only in 1938. Famously inaccurate and lavishly self-serving, Harris s study none the less offers a highly evocative portrait of a compelling personality or rather of two personalities, for Harris never shies from enlarging upon his roles as Wilde s defender, adviser, and sometime friend. Impressionistic, vivid and well-paced, Harris s intimate account of Wilde s rise and fall will fascinate anyone with an interest in a dramatist and poet whose tempestuous, and ultimately tragic, life was his true major work. A serious contender, as one commentator put it, if there were an Olympic gold for lying, Harris provides as near as one gets in biography to a page-turner .
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Hardcover. Etat : Fine. Leichte Gebrauchsspuren. Playwright, novelist, essayist, poet and epigrammatist, Oscar Wilde was Ireland's greatest and most inspired wit. Renowned equally for his espousal of aestheticism and art for art's sake, he became notorious for his affairs with Lord Alfred Douglas and others. Today he is remembered for the brilliance of his writing, and this complete edition of his works contains all his plays, his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his essays, poems and stories for children, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, and his more worldly stories for adults, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories. The juxtaposition of his jeux d'esprits such as The Soul of Man under Socialism and The Portrait of Mr. W.H. contrast sharply with The Ballad of Reading Gaol and De Profundis, while Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest still enchant readers and theatre audiences today. N° de réf. du vendeur d0395f77-c0b4-49c3-af04-5a62535d6bac
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