Auf ein Miniaturbild klicken, um zu Google Books zu gelangen.
Lädt ... The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde (2000. Auflage)von Oscar Wilde (Autor), Merlin Holland (Herausgeber), Rupert Hart-Davis (Herausgeber)
Werk-InformationenThe Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde von Oscar Wilde
Lädt ...
Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Keine Rezensionen
... Printed in full are also some letters previously available only as extracts. The most significant and amusing may be Wilde's original scenario for The Importance of Being Earnest, sent, when desperate for cash, to actor-manager George Alexander. Almost everything in it but the governess, Miss Prism, and the rivalry between estranged brothers, fails to survive in the play as performed. Wilde's wit, charm and genius for paradox often surface, but the letters of his postprison years, from 1897 to 1900, expose a pathetic and paranoid derelict unwilling or unable to control his bent for self-destruction. The correspondence, including letters to Wilde from his adoring, then estranged, wife and several literary colleagues, compels in the way one is drawn to the sinking of the Titanic or the crash of the Hindenburg. ... Auszeichnungen
This edition marks the centenary of Oscar Wilde's death, and is the most complete ever to appear. It contains over 1500 of his letters, and anyone unfamiliar with Wilde as a correspondent will find it packed with unexpected delights. This magnificent collection is a major publishing event. Of all nineteenth-century letter writers Oscar Wilde is, predictably, one of the most sparkling. Wonderfully fluent in style, the letters bear that most familiar of Wildean hallmarks -- the lightest of touches for the most serious of subjects. He knew and corresponded with many leading political, literary and artistic figures of the time including William Gladstone, George Curzon, W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris, Aubrey Beardsley and Max Beerbohm. Wilde's letters show him at his informal best. They comment openly on his life and his work from the early years of undergraduate friendship, through his year-long lecture tour in America as a striving and ambitious young 'Professor of Aesthetics', to the short period of fame and success in the early 1890s followed by his disgrace and imprisonment. The last and most poignant section covers the five long years between his downfall and his Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
Aktuelle DiskussionenKeineBeliebte Umschlagbilder
Google Books — Lädt ... GenresMelvil Decimal System (DDC)828.809Literature English English miscellaneous writings 1837-1899 Individual authorsKlassifikation der Library of Congress [LCC] (USA)BewertungDurchschnitt:
Bist das du?Werde ein LibraryThing-Autor. |