Opis: The Illustrated letters of Oscar Wilde - Juliet Gardiner

Although it is over 120 years since his infamous trial for indecency, Oscar Wilde has never held greater fascination for us. This packed illustrated biography tells the life of Oscar Wilde through his own words - private letters, poems, plays, stories and legendary witticisms. It includes his relationships with key artists and writers of the time, including Ruskin, Charles Ricketts, and Lillie Langtry.

It is illustrated throughout with paintings, engravings, contemporary photographs, cartoons and caricatures of Wilde and his social circle. With illustrations and paintings by Aubrey Beardsley, Toulouse Lautrec, James Whistler and Max Beerbohm, it is a beautiful evocation of the glittering fin de siecle word by its most fascinating wordsmith and aesthete.

The book details Wilde's ruin after the trial and its outcome. The profundity of his writing from prison and exile form an epitaph, not only to his own life, but also for the era that carelessly delighted in it.

Szczegóły: The Illustrated letters of Oscar Wilde - Juliet Gardiner

Tytuł: The Illustrated letters of Oscar Wilde
Autor: Juliet Gardiner
Wydawnictwo: Batsford
ISBN: 9781849945837
Języki: angielski
Rok wydania: 2020
Ilość stron: 160
Format: 26.0x19.0cm
Oprawa: Twarda
Waga: 0.72 kg

Recenzje: The Illustrated letters of Oscar Wilde - Juliet Gardiner