Outside Swan and Edgar’s
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 5 Show More
by Merlin Holland.
Fourth Estate, 192 pp., £12.99, October 1997,
Cosmopolitan Criticism: Oscar Wilde’s Philosophy of Art
by Julia Prewitt Brown.
Virginia, 157 pp., $30, September 1997,9780813917283 Show More
by Julia Prewitt Brown.
Virginia, 157 pp., $30, September 1997,
The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde
edited by Peter Raby.
Cambridge, 307 pp., £37.50, October 1997,9780521474719 Show More
edited by Peter Raby.
Cambridge, 307 pp., £37.50, October 1997,
Moab is my Washpot
by Stephen Fry.
Hutchinson, 343 pp., £16.99, October 1997,0 09 180161 3 Show More
by Stephen Fry.
Hutchinson, 343 pp., £16.99, October 1997,
Nothing … except My Genius
by Oscar Wilde.
Penguin, 82 pp., £2.99, October 1997,0 14 043693 6 Show More
by Oscar Wilde.
Penguin, 82 pp., £2.99, October 1997,
“... Oscar wilde is one of literature’s most bankable brand-names. As the illustrations in Merlin Holland’s The Wilde Album demonstrate, this was as true in his fin de siècle as in ours. During Wilde’s lifetime, his celebrity was used to sell Gilbert and Sullivan’s Patience, Madame Fontaine’s Bosom Beautifier, Straiton and Storm’s cigars and, lastly and mostignominiously, copies of the Illustrated Police Budget ... ”
