AN IDEAL HUSBAND - A PLAY
by Wilde, Oscar
- Used
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good; Discoloration on the spine, some spotting on the inside page, and some edge wear
- Seller
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Hobe Sound, Florida, United States
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Synopsis
From the book:The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests. At the top of the staircase stands LADY CHILTERN, a woman of grave Greek beauty, about twenty-seven years of age. She receives the guests as they come up. Over the well of the staircase hangs a great chandelier with wax lights, which illumine a large eighteenth-century French tapestry - representing the Triumph of Love, from a design by Boucher- that is stretched on the staircase wall. On the right is the entrance to the music-room. The sound of a string quartette is faintly heard. The entrance on the left leads to other reception-rooms. MRS. MARCHMONT and LADY BASIL-DON, two very pretty women, are seated together on a Louis Seize sofa. They are types of exquisite fragility. Their affectation of manner has a delicate charm. Watteau would have loved to paint them.
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- Bookseller
- Neil Shillington: Bookdealer & Booksearch (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 94511
- Title
- AN IDEAL HUSBAND - A PLAY
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good; Discoloration on the spine, some spotting on the inside page, and some edge wear
- Publisher
- Methuen and Co.
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1908
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- The outer portion of a book which covers the actual binding. The spine usually faces outward when a book is placed on a shelf....