Wildeana (Riverrun Editions) Av Oscar Wilde

<p><b>Oscar Wilde''s early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met. He was celebrated - or mocked - as the master of the ingenious epigram, the provocative paradox, the witty aside or the extravagant conceit. </b><br><br>In researching his monumental biography of Wilde Matthew Sturgis found, in every major archive, sheets of foolscap in Wilde''s distinctive handwriting, setting down a series of unfamiliar epigrams - unpublished try-outs. There were fascinating new discoveries.<br><br> He uncovered dozens of unfamiliar and previously ungathered anecdotes about Wilde: sidelights on his days in Oxford, London, America and Paris and beyond, by society hostesses, men-about-town, actors, lawyers, minor litterateurs, artists and politicians, diligently setting down his actions, his mannerisms and above all his sayings.<br><br><b>The items in this volume are all small additions to the Wilde story: some unfamiliar, others unexpected, they enrich