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The Trial of Oscar Wilde
From the Shorthand Reports

English · Paperback / Softback

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"The life and death of Oscar Wilde, poet, playwright, poseur and convict, can only fittingly be summarised as a tragedy. Every misspent life is a tragedy more or less; but how much more tragic appear the elements of despair and disaster when the victim to his own vices is a man of genius exercising a considerable influence upon the thought and culture of his day, and possessing every advantage which birth, education, talent and station can bestow? Oscar Wilde was more than a clever and original thinker. He was the inventor of a certain literary style, and, though his methods, showy and eccentric as they were, lent themselves readily to imitation, none of his followers could approach their "Master" in the particular mode which he had made his own. There can be two opinions as to the merits of his plays. There can be only one judgment as to their daring and audacious originality. Of the ordinary and the commonplace Wilde had a horror, which with him was almost a religion," [...]

Reprint of the book original published in 1906.

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Authors Oscar Wilde
Publisher Vero Verlag in hansebooks GmbH
 
Content Book
Product form Paperback / Softback
Publication date 01.01.2019
Subject Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries
Non-fiction book > Art, literature > Biographies, autobiographies
 
EAN 9783737201803
ISBN 978-3-7372-0180-3
Pages 204
Dimensions (packing) 15.2 x 22.9 x 1.2 cm
Weight (packing) 304 g
 

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