Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
Oscar Wilde: his life and confessions including the hitherto unpublished FULL AND FINAL CONFESSION by Lord Alfred Douglas and MY MEMORIES OF OSCAR WILDE by Bernard Shaw
by Frank Harris
Publisher: Star Books / Garden City Publishing Co Ltd
Garden City, NY, USA

Year


 		1930 FIRST US EDITION THUS       
Cover / size: Hardback / h 21.3 * w 15.4 cm / 470 pp

Dustjacket?   no

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   000831

Condition Good

Boards (black with red lettering): worn at edges, particularly foot of spine; corners curled, particularly back; edge of back cover has markings, discolouring and wear. Page edges unevenly cut. Front endpaper; short pencil inscription and small rough area where sticker has been removed. Pages otherwise clean.

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Content:

An earlier edition of this title was first published in 1916. This expanded version, with the Alfred Douglas confession and Bernard Shaw essay, first appeared in 1930.


Background / Biography:

Frank Harris (14 February 1856 – 27 August 1931) was a British-born, naturalised-American author, editor, journalist and publisher, who was friendly with many well-known figures of his day. Though he attracted much attention during his life for his irascible, aggressive personality, editorship of famous periodicals, and friendship with the talented and famous, he is remembered mainly for his multiple-volume memoir My Life and Loves, which was banned in countries around the world for its sexual explicitness. Continued on Wikipedia


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"A little later I was called to Mote Carlo and went for a few days, leaving Oscar, as he said, perfectly happy with good food, excellent champagne, absinthe and coffee, and his simple fisher friends.

When I came back to La Napoule, I found everything altered and altered for the worse. There was an Englishman of good class named M-- staying at the hotel. He was accompanied by a youth of seventeen or eighteeen whom he called his servant. Oscar wanted to know if I minded meeting him.

'He is charming, Frank, and well read, and he admires me very much. You won't mind his dining with us, will you?

'Of course not,' I replied. But when I saw M-- I thought him an insignificant, foolish creature, who put to show a great admiration for Oscar, and drank in his words with parted lips; and well he might, for he had hardly any brains of his own. He had, however, a certain liking for the poetry and literature of passion."

opening paragraphs, Chapter XXIV 'We Argue About His "Pet Vice" and Punishment'


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