Isbn: 9781940423210 - oscar wilde's crucifix: a biographical experiment (5 Ergebnisse)

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Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 224 pages. 8.25x5.50x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 224 pages. 8.25x5.50x8.50 inches. In Stock.

Taschenbuch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware - While a student at Oxford, Oscar Wilde was courting a beautiful Dublin girl, Florence Balcombe, and on Christmas Day 1876 he presented her with a love gift of a golden crucifix. Two years later, Florence surprised Oscar by suddenly marrying another young writer from Dublin, Bram Stoker, the future author of Dracula.Dutch writer Maarten Asscher uses that crucifix as a fulcrum to examine Wilde's early development as an artist, from a seminal trip to Greece to his whirlwind tour of America and beyond, including real-life encounters with Walt Whitman and Arthur Conan Doyle. Asscher draws on the complete panoply of Wilde scholarship to supplement historical fact with imaginative reconstruction, including a myth-busting account of Wilde's deathbed in Paris, and a fictional solution to the mystery of the crucifix delivered by none other than Sherlock Holmes. The result is a convincing and original interpretation of Victorian history, and a literary tour de force.…