Oscar Wilde: An Exquisite Life - Hardcover

Calloway, Stephen

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0752810413 ISBN 13: 9780752810416

Publisher: Orion, 1997

Synopsis

The wit, wisdom,work and life of Oscar Wilde published to tie in with the release of the major new movie of the life of Oscar Wilde starring Stephen Fly as Wilde, Vanessa Redgrave and Jennifer Ehle. " I WAS A MAN WHO STOOD IN SYMBOLIC RELATION TO THE ART AND CULTURE OF MY AGE... I AWOKE THE IMAGINATION OF MY CENTURY SO THAT IT CREATED MYTH AND LEGEND AROUND ME."

About this title

Book Description:

The extraordinary, inspirational life of one of the greatest characters of English literature.

About the Author:

Stephen Calloway is Associate Curator of paintings at the Victoria and Albert Museum. He travels all over the world lecturing on the 1890s. He is a world expert on the art of Aubrey Beardsley and is the Curator of a major exhibition to be staged at the V&A on the work of Beardsley in 1998. Most recently he was consultant on the film The Portrait of a Lady directed by Jane Campion and starring Nicole Kidman and John Malkovich.

About this edition

• Publisher: Orion
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0752810413
• ISBN 13: 9780752810416
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 112