Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde

Informationen zum Autor Oscar Wilde Klappentext Serving prison time with hard labor for the crime of gross indecency, Oscar Wilde wrote some of his most powerful works. A savage indictment of society, and testimony to private sufferings, his prison writings-illuminated by Nicholas Frankel's notes-reveal a different man from the dandy and aesthete who shocked or amused the English-speaking world. Zusammenfassung Serving prison time with hard labor for the crime of gross indecency, Oscar Wilde wrote some of his most powerful works. A savage indictment of society, and testimony to private sufferings, his prison writings illuminated by Nicholas Frankel's notes reveal a different man from the dandy and aesthete who shocked or amused the English-speaking world.

Product details

• Assisted by: Nicholas Frankel (Editor)
• Authors: Oscar Wilde
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Content: Book
• Product form: Paperback / Softback
• Publication date: 14.05.2018
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies
• EAN: 9780674984387
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98438-7
• Pages: 370
• Subjects: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary Figures, Biography: literary, European History, Diaries, letters & journals, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Diaries & Journals, HISTORY / Europe / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Drama, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Archaeology, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Letters, c 1500 onwards to present day, Archaeology, Letters, Diaries, letters and journals, Literary studies: plays & playwrights, Biography: writers, History and Archaeology, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Literary studies: plays and playwrights