Matthew Sweet: The life of Oscar Wilde, 5 February 1998
The Wilde Album by Merlin Holland.
Fourth Estate, 192 pp., £12.99, October 1997, 1 85702 782 5Show More Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde’s Philosophy of Art by Julia Prewitt Brown.
Virginia, 157 pp., $30, September 1997, 9780813917283Show More The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde edited by Peter Raby.
Cambridge, 307 pp., £37.50, October 1997, 9780521474719Show More Wilde The Novel by Stefan Rudnicki.
Orion, 215 pp., £5.99, October 1997, 0 7528 1160 6Show More Oscar Wilde by Frank Harris.
Robinson, 358 pp., £7.99, October 1997, 1 85487 126 9Show More Moab is my Washpot by Stephen Fry.
Hutchinson, 343 pp., £16.99, October 1997, 0 09 180161 3Show More Nothing … except My Genius by Oscar Wilde.
Penguin, 82 pp., £2.99, October 1997, 0 14 043693 6Show More Show More“... the story back to 1930 and to Ada Leverson, who – he suggests – probably heard it from Reggie Turner. In her version, ‘a curious, very young, but hard-eyed creature appeared, looked at him, gave a sort of laugh, and passed on. He felt, he said, “as if an icy hand had clutched at his heart”. He had a sudden presentiment. He saw a vision of ...”