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Coffee with Oscar Wilde

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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 , transforming his life into a work of art , his time in prison, his concept of morality, and why he thinks “in life, style, not sincerity, is the essential.”

Language: English

Pages: 143

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Duncan Baird

Release: September 01, 2007

ISBN: 184483512X

ISBN 13: 9781844835126

Coffee with Oscar Wilde

3.6/5 ( ratings)

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 , transforming his life into a work of art , his time in prison, his concept of morality, and why he thinks “in life, style, not sincerity, is the essential.”

Language: English

Pages: 143

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Duncan Baird

Release: September 01, 2007

ISBN: 184483512X

ISBN 13: 9781844835126

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