Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
Seven Friends Oscar Wilde, Frank Harris, Aleister Crowley, John Cowper Powys, T F Powys, Llewellyn Powys, William Somerset Maugham
by Louis Marlow
Publisher: Richards Press
London, UK

Year


 		1953 1st edition       
Cover / size: Hardback / h 20.3 cm * w 14 cm / 170 pp

Dustjacket?   yes

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   001140

Condition Good (jacket: fair)

Jacket (in mylar): unclipped but pieces torn from top and bottom of spine; discoloured, particularly on spine; small tape over spine with library classification. Boards (very pale green with black lettering): curving slightly, faded at edges; small dents. Page edges mottled. Endpapers: brown spots and short penciled notes. Title page: small ink note. Some pages have spots but most are clean.

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Content:

"In his new book Mr Louis Marlow presents us with a series of portraits of some figures of the contemporary literary scene whom he has known more or less intimately in the course of the years. William Somerset Maugham, Llewelyn Powys and his brothers, fantastic figures such as Frank Harris and Aleister Crowley, appear in the gallery, and, in addition, Oscar Wilde, with whom the author corresponded when he was a young man, although they never actually met. He is able to quote Wilde's letters to him, and he includes also an interesting series of hitherto unpublished letters from Wilde which were written to another friend of the author's the late George Ives."

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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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"There is one thing at least of which there should be no complaint in our 'sad, late day', and that is the changed view of Oscar Wilde. When I was a Cambridge undergraduate in 1904 one of the dons - I think the metaphysician MacTaggart - remarked that Wilde had now ceased to be an unspeakable blackguard and become an unfortunate man of genius. We have gone further on than that: 'unfortunate man of genius' hardly covers the ground today. Wilde is not, as he soon was after his death, an object of pity; his sufferings, his tragedy are long past. It is his glamour to which there is now a more general response than ever before. To the fascination of the figure that he cut in his period, to his unique interest as a person, there is a susceptibility that increases. Book after book is written about him and they have large sales. One reason for this may be that his life and his writings satisfy a nostalgia for the life of the later nineteenth century as no other life and writings do. The way of his life, the way of the lives of the people in his plays that are so often revived - what a treat for us today, young and old, to look at that pattern of live in!"

opening paragraph, "Oscar Wilde"



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