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Oscar Wilde: A Study
Paperback
Literary FiguresLiterary Criticism
ISBN13: 9781910146927
Publisher: Solis Press
Published: May 1 2025
Pages: 60
Weight: 0.28
Height: 0.16 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
'I have put all my genius into my life; I have put only my talent into my works.'-Oscar Wilde.
André Gide first met Wilde in Paris when Wilde had fled Britain following his release from Reading gaol. This short book was first published in English in 1905 and was written shortly after Oscar Wilde's death in 1900.
Through personal recollections, Gide states that he set out to show Wilde as an object of admiration and then demonstrate how his work was illuminated by his personality.
André Gide (1869-1951) was the winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948. His works included many books of fiction as well as autobiographies. He was sexually attracted to boys, describing himself as a pederast. In his Si le Grain Ne Meurt (1924), Gide claims that in 1895 Wilde had 'inveigled him [Gide] into debauchery' with a young Arab boy in Algiers: this was not the case as Gide had already 'discovered his homosexuality' some years earlier.
Stuart Mason (the nom de plume of Christopher Sclater Millard, 1872-1927) translated the book from the original French magazine article and added an introduction, notes and a bibliography. It was Mason's bibliography, listing all of Wilde's works that helped Wilde's literary executor, Robbie Ross, establish copyright on his works. Millard, like Wilde, was imprisoned for his homosexuality.
The book includes the five images from the original publication; three of which are of Oscar Wilde.
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