| Description |
xviii, 381 p. : port. ; 22 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-372) and index. |
| Contents |
Foreword / by Lord Alfred Douglas -- Pt. 1. Oscar Wilde. Speranza -- The student -- The aesthete tries his wings -- Lily of love, pure and inviolate -- A most intense young man -- The sunflower comes to America -- The lecturing Ossian -- In the gown of Balzac -- Constance -- Wilde and the butterfly. Pt. 2. And the yellow 'nineties. On the threshold of the 'nineties -- Dorian Gray -- The lost generation -- The higher philosophy -- Success -- Enter the Marquis of Queensberry -- The Green carnation -- The Yellow book and The Savoy -- The Marquis leaves a card -- The booby trap -- Morality versus art -- The love that dare not speak its name -- The trap shuts down -- De Profundis -- The Ballad of Reading Gaol -- In the circle of the boulevards. |
| Subject |
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
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