Oscar Wilde: His Life and Wit by Hasketh Pearson - 1946

United States of America: Harper & Brothers, 1946. 345 pages. Few personalities in the history of literature have aroused so much interest as that of Oscar Wilde, yet the essentials of his nature are still not recognized and we are left to catch glimpses of the real man in the scattered reminiscences of the period. Here, at last, is the whole life of the man who was probably the most delightful and witty conversationalist the world has ever seen. Hesketh Pearson has succeeded in presenting Oscar Wilde as he was at the Café Royale in London, and in making the reader see him as the darling of the drawing rooms, the conversationalist, not the convict.. 2nd. Hard Cover. Good/Not Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Literature.