Oscar and Bosie: A Fatal PassionSutton, 2002 - 267 strán (strany) The love story of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas surely ranks among the world's greatest romantic tragedies. After Wilde's tragic bid to sue the Marquis of Queensberry for libel ended in total humiliation, with his imprisonment, exile and early death in Paris at the age of 46, the London literati split into bitterly opposed camps. Some have believed that Bosie deserted a friend in need, others that Wilde was the innocent victim of a long-running family feud between an obsessed father and his pampered son. Fuelled by the surviving correspondence, successive biographies and Bosie's own polemical writing, the arguments have merely intensified over the years. Of Wilde, however, the question will always remain: Why did he bring about his own downfall? This book is that fascinating and complex story. |
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... friendship with the idol of the Cambridge games playing set , John Graham Chambers . Chambers was an exemplary product of the playing fields of the Victorian public school and university . A champion walker , outstanding oarsman and ...
... friendship with the idol of the Cambridge games playing set , John Graham Chambers . Chambers was an exemplary product of the playing fields of the Victorian public school and university . A champion walker , outstanding oarsman and ...
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... friendship with Wilde , however , Harris could not stomach the " Portrait of Mr W.H. " , which posited a homosexual Shakespeare , and it was published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine . Wilde was now writing with astonishing fecundity ...
... friendship with Wilde , however , Harris could not stomach the " Portrait of Mr W.H. " , which posited a homosexual Shakespeare , and it was published in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine . Wilde was now writing with astonishing fecundity ...
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... friendship had already begun came when Bosie revealed that he was in desperate straits . Though Wilde claimed he had only met Bosie four times , the friendship was clearly already strong . What the blackmail centred on can only be ...
... friendship had already begun came when Bosie revealed that he was in desperate straits . Though Wilde claimed he had only met Bosie four times , the friendship was clearly already strong . What the blackmail centred on can only be ...
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TWO A Long and Lovely Suicide | 28 |
THREE Feasting with Panthers | 45 |
FOUR Queensberry Rules | 62 |
Autorské práva | |
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