Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
The Life of Oscar Wilde
by Hesketh Pearson
Publisher: Methuen
London, UK

Year


 		1947       first publ: 1946
Cover / size: Hardback / h 22.2 cm * w 15.3 cm / 389 pp

Dustjacket?   no

ISBN: n/a

Arbery Ref:   000832

Condition Good

Boards (yellow with red lettering and green decoration): some staining and soiling, particularly spine and front edge; wear to edges and rubbed through at one corner. Front endpaper: corner clipped and owner's name in pencil, browning. Rear endpapers: erased pencil inscription and some browning. A few pages have small pencil marks but most are clean.

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Content:

One of the best-known biographies of the playwright, essential for any Wilde aficionado.


Background / Biography:

Edward Hesketh Gibbons Pearson (20 February 1887 - 9 April 1964) was a British actor, theatre director and writer. continued on Wikipedia

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.
Continued on Wikipedia


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"A man's myriad ancestors probably have more influence on his mental and physical being than his two parents, whose effects on his upbringin can only qualify the main traits of a character produced by innumerable forebears. But sometimes a man's nature seems to owe a great deal to his parents; and as this was especially so in the case of Oscar Wilde, we must pay some attention to his father and mother, both of whom achieved considerable distinction in their way."

opening paragraph, Chapter 2, "The Parents"



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