Coffee with Oscar Wilde (Coffee with...Series)
Book Details
Author(s)Merlin Holland
PublisherDuncan Baird
ISBN / ASIN184483512X
ISBN-139781844835126
AvailabilityUsually ships in 24 hours
Sales Rank852,302
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
Oscar Wilde’s own grandson, with the help of actor and author Simon Callow—who has performed Wilde’s work on stage—capture the essence of this wittiest of all playwrights. Set in Paris, where he fled after the scandalous trial that revealed his homosexuality, Wilde chats about language, his mother (an esteemed Irish folklorist), transforming his life into a work of art (“My great tragedy is that I put my genius into my life—and only my talent into my workâ€), his time in prison, his concept of morality, and why he thinks “in life, style, not sincerity, is the essential.â€


