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After Oscarby Merlin HollandISBN 1857027809 (1-85702-780-9)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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Coffee with Oscar Wildeby Merlin Holland , Simon CallowISBN 184483512X (1-84483-512-X)
Hardcover, Duncan Baird Pub
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Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wildeby Oscar Wilde, Merlin HollandISBN 000472383X (0-00-472383-X)
Softcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:The centennial edition of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works. A new centennial edition of the bestselling Complete Worlks of Oscar Wilde: now published in a special papreback centennial edition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death, with a revision of The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Merlin Holland, Oscar's grandson. [via]
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Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Centenary Editionby Oscar Wilde, Merlin HollandISBN 0004723724 (0-00-472372-4)
Hardcover, Trafalgar Square
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Centenary Edition'Book summary:The centennial edition of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works. A new centennial edition of the bestselling Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: now published in a special hardback centennial edition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death, with a revision of The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's grandson. [via]
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Complete Letters of Oscar Wildeby Oscar Wilde, Merlin Holland , Rupert Hart-DavisISBN 1857027817 (1-85702-781-7)
Hardcover, Zondervan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:Wilde's brilliant career is a modern myth; the sparkling life, the love lavished on the beautiful but unworthy Alfred Douglas, the downfall and years of hard labour in gaol. This large, handsome collection of letters, dressed in strikingly bright purple livery, is an appropriate monument to its subject. The editor, Merlin Holland, building on Rupert Hart-Davies' 1960 first edition of Wilde's correspondence, has done an immaculate job; the annotation is copious and helpful, the letters embellished with many of Wilde's original sketches and doodles, and the whole thing is an addictive pleasure to read. One rationale for the volume is that, as Holland puts it, "it is in his letters that we come closest to the legendary verbal, conversational wit of Wilde". He himself claimed that he put his genius into his life not his work, and these letters are certainly closer to his life and his suave ad-libbing than his other published work. Actually, in practice this is true only for part of the volume: necessarily, a large proportion of these letters is mundane business and day-to-day communication ("Dear Aleck. I beg to acknowledge with thanks your cheque for £50 on account of fees for my play", and so on). But there are hundreds of more delightful, sparkling and hilarious letters too.
The jewel in the crown of this collection is undoubtedly the cleanest text in print of the lengthy letter Wilde wrote to Lord Alfred Douglas from Reading Gaol in early 1897. It was this letter that was published in 1905 as De Profundis, although that version constituted less than half the original text. Holland and Hart-Davies present the whole thing, reedited from manuscript. Reading this extraordinary and moving letter in its entirety (it takes up nearly 100 pages), while being able to compare it with the usual tenor of Wilde's letter writing, is breath-taking. Most striking is the transition from the heartfelt but rather cloying earlier letters to the Douglas ("my dear boy ... It is really absurd. I can't live without you. You are so dear, so wonderful"), to the depth of expression from Reading Gaol: "Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live. If any love is shown us we should recognise that we are quite unworthy of it. Nobody is worthy to be loved". But one thing--Wilde's sheer style--was unaffected by his downfall. "Everything about my tragedy has been hideous", he wrote from prison, "mean, repellent, lacking in style. Our very dress sense makes us grotesques. We are the zanies of sorrow". The most tragic aspect of the collection is the wilderness of rather undignified begging letters with which it ends ("Will you now send me £10? Please do this"; "Can you wire me £5 on account tomorrow?"), as Wilde lives out his last years in France. More immediate and vivid than even Ellman's classic Oscar Wilde, this is a wonderful book. --Adam Roberts [via]
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Irish Peacock & Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wildeby Merlin HollandISBN 0007154194 (0-00-715419-4)
Softcover, HarperCollins Canada, Limited
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Oscar Wildeby Merlin HollandISBN 1402715145 (1-4027-1514-5)
Hardcover, Sterling Pub Co Inc
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Oscar Wilde: Selected Poemsby Oscar Wilde, Merlin HollandISBN 0007161034 (0-00-716103-4)
Hardcover, Fourth Estate
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The Real Trial of Oscar Wildeby Merlin HollandISBN 000715805X (0-00-715805-X)
Softcover, Harpercollins
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Son of Oscar Wildeby Vyvyan Holland, Merlin HollandISBN 0786707011 (0-7867-0701-1)
Softcover, Carroll & Graf Pub
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Son of Oscar Wilde'Book summary:With its thirty-three previously unpublished Oscar Wilde letters and its poignant recollections of a man as spontaneous, humane, and sincere as he was prodigiously witty, Vyvyan Holland's memoir of his famous father has come to be regarded as a biographical classic in Wildean studies. Sharply observed, vivid, and dispassionate, it offers not only an unforgettable portrait of Wilde himself, his circle of friends, and his band of persecutors, but also a touching chronicle of Holland's own childhood, of the loneliness he experienced as the son of a remarkable, notorious father and of his emergence from the shadows of cruel injustice and dark scandal.[via]
"Fascinating for the light it sheds on Wilde's Oxford days and on his domestic life." - Atlantic Monthly
"A strange chronicle . . . of considerable literary value." - New Yorker
"Mr. Holland's vivid glimpses of the aftermath of that cause célèbre of the Nineties [do] a valuable service of his father's memory." - Saturday Review
"An essential addition to Wildeana by a witness uniquely qualified to testify" - Library Journal
"A biographical tour de force" - ObserverMore editions of Son of Oscar Wilde:
The Wilde Albumby Merlin HollandISBN 1857027825 (1-85702-782-5)
Hardcover, Fourth Estate
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Wilde Album'Book summary:Oscar Wilde was a man ahead of his time. He was famous for pushing the parameters of socially accepted sexual codes (albeit with disastrous results), and, as a playwright, for introducing a new, extraordinarily modern, idea of comedy that combined psychological insight with social satire. But he was also one of the primary inventors of the art and science of self-invention and self-promotion. The Wilde Album by Merlin Holland (Wilde's grandson) is a fascinating and comprehensive examination of how Wilde the artist consciously conjured--through a complicated and savvy use of the media--Wilde the personality. Holland has assembled an enormous number of artifacts--from press clippings to political cartoons to theater programs --that map Wilde's emergence as a media celebrity and chart how this image was used against him as his popularity foundered in the face of scandal.
What makes The Wilde Album ultimately moving, and unique, is Holland's use of rare family photos and personal material. Juxtaposed with the vivaciousness of the public life, and in the context of the government's persecution of the artist, this more private material embodies and expresses the pain and needless tragedy of Wilde's life. [via]
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Oscar Wilde im Kreuzverhör.by Merlin HollandISBN 3896672401 (3-89667-240-1)
Softcover
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Das Oscar-Wilde Album.by Merlin HollandISBN 389667238X (3-89667-238-X)
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Das Oscar-Wilde Album.'Book summary:Dank Merlin Holland, dem Enkel Oscar Wildes, gibt es wieder ein Album mit Erinnerungen an den größten Dandy und Dichter Englands und Irlands. Kurz vor seiner Anklage hatten Gesetzesvollstrecker alle Familienalben und alle Bände, in denen Wilde lückenlos sammelte, was je über ihn gesagt, geschrieben oder gezeichnet wurde, für ein paar lächerliche Schillinge verkauft. Sie gingen verloren. Eine Tragödie für das Genie der Worte und der Selbstinszenierung, das nicht nur Weltliteratur erster Güte schuf, sondern mit höchstem Sinn für Ästhetik und Schönheit sich selbst zum Kunstwerk stilisierte.
Dreißig Jahre lang recherchierte Holland und begab sich auf die Spuren seines außergewöhnlichen, hochbegabten und unerschrocken seinen Zukunftsvisionen folgenden Großvaters. Das Ergebnis ist eine gelungene Lebenschronik, die dem Hang des großen Meisters zur Vollkommenheit bestimmt Genüge geleistet hätte.
Poesiealbumformat. Ein sich wie Marmor anfühlender Schutzumschlag auf dem Wilde, mit träumerischem Blick nach Nirgendwo schweifend, an einer reich verzierten Fassade lehnt. Weinroter Einband mit goldenen Lettern auf schwarzem Buchrücken. Edles Glanzpapier. Die Innendeckel sind mit Briefen Wildes an seine große Liebe Bosie kaschiert. Viele, bisher unveröffentlichte Fotos, Zitate, Briefauszüge, Karrikaturen und eigene Zeichnungen Wildes. Bilderanzahl und Textumfang halten sich die Waage, wie es sich für ein richtiges Album gehört und folgen der biographischen Reihenfolge.
Zweifellos hat Oscar Wildes Enkel hiermit einen sehr akzeptablen Ersatz für die verschollenen Bände geschaffen und fügt unserem Wissen über das Leben dieses phantastischen Schöpfers essentieller Poesie eine beachtliche Anzahl neuer Details hinzu. --Daphne von Unruh [via]
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La Vita Come Arte: Oscar Wilde, Le Arti E L'Italiaby Merlin Holland , Masolino D'Amico, Rita SeveriISBN 8837303890 (88-373-0389-0)
Hardcover, Novecento
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