The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde
The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde
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by Wilde, Oscar and Robert Gorham Davis, (Intro)
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Norwich, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 1976. First Easton Edition. Full Calf. In exceptionally good condition/No dust jacket. Royal octavo, [25cm/10inches], full gilt-embossed ox-blood cloth, sans dust jacket, pp. 314, a.e.g. Illustrated with colour plates after paintings by James Hill. Please feel free to ask for particulars and/or additional photographs. ... Wilde published The Happy Prince and Other Tales in 1888, and had been regularly writing fairy stories for magazines. In 1891 he published two more collections, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, and in September A House of Pomegranates was dedicated "To Constance Mary Wilde". "The Portrait of Mr. W. H.", which Wilde had begun in 1887, was first published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine in July 1889. It is a short story, which reports a conversation, in which the theory that Shakespeare's sonnets were written out of the poet's love of the boy actor "Willie Hughes".. The only evidence for this is two supposed puns within the sonnets themselves.
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 31305
- Title
- The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde ,
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar and Robert Gorham Davis, (Intro)
- Format/Binding
- Full Calf
- Book Condition
- Used - In exceptionally good condition
- Jacket Condition
- No dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Easton Edition
- Publisher
- The Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwich, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1976
- Keywords
- English Literature
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