Oscar Wilde: The Double Image

by George Woodcock

Book Overview

Oscar Wilde was seemingly drawn towards many paradoxes: paganism and Christianity; to be a playboy or a prophet; or to be an aesthetic clown or the creative critic. George Woodcock takes us through this double image of the celebrated personality and writer and attempts to resolve the contradictions. Wilde was influenced by Walter Pater and the Epicureans, by John Ruskin's theories on Art and also by his severe criticisms of the Industrial Revolution,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0921689438
• ISBN13: 9780921689430
• Release Date: July 1989
• Publisher: Black Rose Books
• Length: 308 Pages
• Weight: 1.24 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"

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Reissue of book titled....

This is a reissue of the 1947 book by the same author, *The Paradox of Oscar Wilde*.