The unmasking of Oscar Wilde / Joseph Pearce
2000, Second Edition. London : HarperCollins. Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, slightly edge-bumped and dust-dulled dust-wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #476141
ISBN: 0002740427
Physical description; xvi, 301 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 1. Mother of masks -- 2. Star in the ascendancy -- 3. Oxford donned -- 4. Courting conversion -- 5. Roman fever -- 6. Love's web -- 7. Courting controversy -- 8. Poetry and pose -- 9. Courting Constance -- 10. French connection -- 11. Truth and masks -- 12. Purity and passion -- 13. Poison and passion -- 14. Unhappy hypocrite -- 15. Malice through the looking glass -- 16. Critic or artist -- 17. Friends and relations -- 18. Saints and sinners -- 19. Fatal attraction -- 20. Courting conviction -- 21. Descent -- 22. Abyss -- 23. Purgatory -- 24. Out of the depths -- 25. Wilderness -- 26. Hounded by heaven -- 27. Revelations. Subjects; Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900. Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 ; Biography. 1900-1999. Authors, Irish 20th century ; Biography. Gay men England ; Biography. Authors, English. Gay men.
Price: €12.95