Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
The Stringed Lute
An Evocation in Dialogue of OSCAR WILDE
by John Furnell
Publisher: Rider & Company
London, UK

Year


 		1955 FIRST EDITION       
Cover / size: Hardback / h 21.7 * w 14.5 cm / 198 pp / 5 b&w photos

Dustjacket?   no

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   000715

Condition Good

Boards (dark purple): discolouring, particularly at edges; wear, particularly at edges, corners and around spine. Book leans forward slightly. Front endpaper: one spot, erased pencil inscription, binding slightly loose. Pages browning slightly but otherwise clean.

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Content:

Introduction
Author's Foreword
Prologue
Book One
   1. Dorian Gray Comes to Life
   2. First Night at St James's
Book Two
   1. Booing at the Old Bailey
   2. The Sword of Damocles
   3. Heartbreak House
   4. Toulouse-Lautrec Paints a Portrait
   5. The Haunted Human Fox
Book Three
   1. The Prison Gates Open
   2. Brave Pretence at Berneval
   3. Italian Interlude
   4. Montmartre
   5. The Curtain Falls
Epilogue
Appendix of References


Background / Biography:

There are several references on the internet to The Stringed Lute as a play on which films such as The Trials of Oscar Wilde was based, but there is no reference online to a production of the play, nor to any biography of Furnell.

Oscar Wilde


Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment for homosexuality, followed by his early death.
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"OSCAR (laying his hand on Bosie's knee): What do you want from life? Do you know - yet? For you have only to ask to have.

BOSIE (fiercely): I want - everything! Every experience, every sensation. I want to know ... (He breaks off.)

OSCAR: Know what, dear boy?

BOSIE: Why, the secret of life, of course. There is one - somewhere.

OSCAR (shaking his head): 'There is no secret of life. Life's aim, if it has one, is simply to be always looking for temptations. There are not nearly enough of them. I sometimes pass a whole day without coming across a single one. It is quite dreadful. It makes one so nervous about the future.' "

p27: Dorian Gray Comes To Life



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