After Oscar The Legacy of a Scandal, UK

[Emperor2011]

After Oscar The Legacy of a Scandal, UK | 41.79 MB

Title: After Oscar
Author: Merlin Holland
Category: Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, True Crime, Biography & Memoir
Language: English | 288 Pages | ISBN: 1787705927


Description:
THE DEFINITIVE STUDY OF OSCAR WILDE'S POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION, WRITTEN BY WILDE'S ONLY GRANDSON"A fascinating sweep through a hundred years from Wilde's death to now."-Stephen Fry"Gripping"-The Times"Wilde's afterlife remains almost as rich and entertaining as his life."-The GuardianOscar Wilde died in November 1900, exiled in Paris and exhausted by scandal and prison life. The details of his life in the limelight are well known; what have regularly been ignored are the reverberations of the scandal for decades after his death.With pathos, humour, and his grandfather's signature wit, Holland charts the extraordinary afterlife of the legendary writer and thinker, and traces the dramatic fluctuations in Wilde's posthumous reputation over the past 125 years. A true feat of storytelling and scholarship, After Oscar tells the story of Oscar's wife Constance and his sons Cyril and Vyvyan; his lovers, friends, and enemies; the afterlife of De Profundis; sightings from beyond the...

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