The Annotated Oscar Wilde
Edited, With Introductions & Annotations by H. Montgomery Hyde
- 488 stránok
- 18 hodin čítania
Selected poems, prose fiction, plays, lectures and essays, and letters. With contemporary photographs and illustrations.
Hyde bol autorom viacerých diel, ktoré sa ponorili do zložitých procesov špionáže a politiky. Jeho literárny prístup sa vyznačoval hlbokým záujmom o témy tajných služieb a zákulisné diplomatické manévre, ktoré formovali medzinárodné vzťahy. Hyde sa vo svojich spisoch sústredil na odhaľovanie skrytých mechanizmov moci a na analýzu kľúčových postáv a udalostí, ktoré ovplyvnili dejiny 20. storočia. Čitatelia oceňujú jeho schopnosť odhaliť závoje tajomstiev a poskytnúť vhľad do sveta tajných operácií a politických intríg.



Edited, With Introductions & Annotations by H. Montgomery Hyde
Selected poems, prose fiction, plays, lectures and essays, and letters. With contemporary photographs and illustrations.
Aesthete, dandy, poet, dramatist and philosopher Oscar Wilde's wit and charm dazzled society in London, America and Paris in the late 1880s. But the year 1895 brought Wilde literary triumph -with two plays achieving phenomenal success in London's West End -and personal disaster. Urged on by his friend Lord Alfred Douglas, Wilde brought a libel action against Lord Alfred's father, the eccentric Marquess of Queensberry. The ensuing trials at the Old Bailey revealed Wilde's reckless adventures in the London underworld and he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour. This fascinating biography examines both sides of Wilde's the artistic genius.