Aspects of Wilde
From the jacket: "This remarkable book is unique in the literature of Oscar Wilde. Vincent O'Sullivan was the mystery-man of the 1890s decadent set, an American who lived large parts of his life in England and France, O'Sullivan and Wilde became friends in Paris after scandal and prison had brought Wilde down and effectively ended his literary career.
By no means a conventional biography, nor a memoir, Aspects of Wilde roams freely through anecdote, philosophy, literary cricitism, polemic and reminiscence.
O'Sullivan paints and honest and fair picture of Wilde, particularly in his last years. It is a picture which is not without affection but which is also frank. the cast of characters includes all the 'names' of the Nineties and O'Sullivan often digresses to detail his own and Wilde's dealings with Leonard Smithers, Beardsley, Dowson, Merrill, Lord Alfred Douglas and the like.
O'Sullivan was himself a part of that group of bright young authors and artists who gave the 1890s their enduring style and his portrait of Wilde, the man and his works, remains an important contribution to our understanding today."
This is Callum James Books' first production of a conventionally printed hardcover title. The edition is limited to 100 numbered copies. Aspects of Wilde has not been republished for more than seventy years and this new edition has an informative introduction by Alan Anderson about the relationship between Wilde and O'Sullivan as well as a bibliographical description of the first edition and an index of names and works mentioned in the text.
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by Vincent O'Sullivan.
edited by Callum James with an introduction by Alan Anderson.
