Oscar Wilde and the yellow 'nineties [Oscar Wilde -- Speranza -- The student -- The aesthete tries his wings -- Lily of love, pure inviolate -- A most intense young man -- The sunflower comes to America -- The lecturing Ossian -- In the gown of Balzac -- Constance -- Wilde and the butterfly -- Part two: And the yellow 'nineties -- On the threshold of the 'nineties -- Dorian Gray -- The lost generation -- The higher philosophy -- Success -- Enter the Marquis of Queensberry -- The green carnation -- The yellow book and The savoy -- The Marquis leaves a card -- The booby trap -- Morality versus art -- The love that dare not speak its name -- The trap shuts down -- De profundis -- The ballad of Reading Gaol -- In the circle of the Boulevards]
by Winwar, Frances, 1900-1985 (Frances Vinciguerra Grebanier). [subject: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900]
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- good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Good/No Jacket
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Stockbridge, Georgia, United States
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New York, Harper, 1940 [This copy issued in December 1939], 1940. Book. Good. Hardcover. vii, 381 pages frontispiece (portrait) 22 cm ; LCCN: 40-27323 ; LC: PR5823; Dewey: 928.2 ; OCLC: 753719 ; blue cloth ; no dustjacket ; Contents: Part one: Oscar Wilde -- Speranza -- The student -- The aesthete tries his wings -- Lily of love, pure inviolate -- A most intense young man -- The sunflower comes to America -- The lecturing Ossian -- In the gown of Balzac -- Constance -- Wilde and the butterfly -- Part two: And the yellow 'nineties -- On the threshold of the 'nineties -- Dorian Gray -- The lost generation -- The higher philosophy -- Success -- Enter the Marquis of Queensberry -- The green carnation -- The yellow book and The savoy -- The Marquis leaves a card -- The booby trap -- Morality versus art -- The love that dare not speak its name -- The trap shuts down -- De profundis -- The ballad of Reading Gaol -- In the circle of the Boulevards. ; name on front endpaper ; spine sunned ; numerous illustrations, some rarely seen ; G.
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- Joseph Valles - Books (US)
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- Title
- Oscar Wilde and the yellow 'nineties [Oscar Wilde -- Speranza -- The student -- The aesthete tries his wings -- Lily of love, pure inviolate -- A most intense young man -- The sunflower comes to America -- The lecturing Ossian -- In the gown of Balzac -- Constance -- Wilde and the butterfly -- Part two: And the yellow 'nineties -- On the threshold of the 'nineties -- Dorian Gray -- The lost generation -- The higher philosophy -- Success -- Enter the Marquis of Queensberry -- The green carnation -- The yellow book and The savoy -- The Marquis leaves a card -- The booby trap -- Morality versus art -- The love that dare not speak its name -- The trap shuts down -- De profundis -- The ballad of Reading Gaol -- In the circle of the Boulevards]
- Author
- Winwar, Frances, 1900-1985 (Frances Vinciguerra Grebanier). [subject: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900]
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Publisher
- New York, Harper, 1940 [This copy issued in December 1939]
- Date Published
- 1940
- Keywords
- Oscar Wilde -- Speranza -- The student -- The aesthete tries his wings -- Lily of love, pure inviolate -- A most intense young man -- The sunflower comes to America -- The lecturing Ossian -- In the gown of Balzac -- Constance -- Wilde and the butterfly -
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