On Some Days of the Week
Colm Tóibín: Mrs Oscar Wilde, 10 May 2012
Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs Oscar Wilde
by Franny Moyle.
John Murray, 374 pp., £9.99, February 2012,978 1 84854 164 1 Show More
by Franny Moyle.
John Murray, 374 pp., £9.99, February 2012,
The Picture of Dorian Gray: An Annotated, Uncensored Edition
by Oscar Wilde, edited by Nicholas Frankel.
Harvard, 295 pp., £25.95, April 2011,978 0 674 05792 0 Show More
by Oscar Wilde, edited by Nicholas Frankel.
Harvard, 295 pp., £25.95, April 2011,
“... to see the highest development of the modern artistic spirit.’ Two years later, Gilbert and Sullivan caricatured Wilde in Patience as a ‘greenery-yallery-Grosvenor-Gallery-foot-in-the-grave-young-man’. When Basil Hallward completes his portrait of Dorian Gray in Wilde’s novel, Lord Henry Wotton says: ‘It is your best work, Basil, the best thing ... ”