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Coles Oscar Wilde: An Idler's Impression: Restored Classics to Go Edition at Village Green Shopping Centre in Vernon, BC
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In this intimate literary portrait, Edgar Saltus captures Oscar Wilde not as a subject for strict biography, but as a dazzling, tragic presence remembered through wit, style, and личное recollection. Set against Paris, New York, and London, the book evokes Wilde as a brilliant conversationalist, theatrical performer, and paradoxical figure whose generosity, vanity, charm, and genius were inseparable from the sense of doom that shadowed him. Saltus traces the arc of a life lived flamboyantly and ended in humiliation, reflecting on Wilde's trial, imprisonment, and exile with sympathy and fascination. Yet the portrait is not only elegiac: the phrase "Incipit Vita Nova" points toward renewal, transformation, and the strange rebirth of legacy after ruin. The result is a reflective, atmospheric meditation on fame, downfall, and the enduring magnetism of one of literature's most unforgettable figures. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
In this intimate literary portrait, Edgar Saltus captures Oscar Wilde not as a subject for strict biography, but as a dazzling, tragic presence remembered through wit, style, and личное recollection. Set against Paris, New York, and London, the book evokes Wilde as a brilliant conversationalist, theatrical performer, and paradoxical figure whose generosity, vanity, charm, and genius were inseparable from the sense of doom that shadowed him. Saltus traces the arc of a life lived flamboyantly and ended in humiliation, reflecting on Wilde's trial, imprisonment, and exile with sympathy and fascination. Yet the portrait is not only elegiac: the phrase "Incipit Vita Nova" points toward renewal, transformation, and the strange rebirth of legacy after ruin. The result is a reflective, atmospheric meditation on fame, downfall, and the enduring magnetism of one of literature's most unforgettable figures. This edition has been fully restored with modern typesetting, custom cover design.
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