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Title: The Trials of Oscar Wilde by H. Montgomery Hyde ISBN: 0-486-20216-X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1973 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (1 review)
Rating: 5
Summary: Closer to the Man
Comment: As Ellmann writes in his magisterial biography, the name of Oscar Wilde is synonymous with delight. What better place to search for hitherto unreported aphorisms and bon mots than in the transcripts of his two trials--the one in which he sued the Marquis of Queensbery [my deliberate mispelling, to get back at this man for "somdomite"], Bosie's father, and the one in which he himself was accused of immorality? Since much of the interest in Wilde, as in Fitzgerald and Plath, is in his extraordinary life, this book should be a primary source.
If you feel as I do, you will not be disappointed with H., Montgomery Hyde's account. This is not a compilation of dazzling wit, yet wonderful ripostes break out amidst the legal tedium, the inexorable process that led to Wilde's imprisonment. The appendices and Hyde's comments add significantly and are remarkably free of editorializing.
A devoted reader of Ellmann's biography will immediately see that Ellmann relied on H. Montgomery Hyde. From a personal acquaintance who in the 1960's met Hyde at Northwestern University, where Ellmann taught, I have learned that the two knew each other well. Ellmann's conclusions about Wilde's syphilis derive in part from Hyde. His precis of the trial is a reduced version of Hyde's full presentation.
*The Trails of Oscar Wilde* brings the reader closer to Wilde (as seen by Hyde)--to the man whose force of personality gained him a devoted, usually sympathetic following. The personality is crucial. To Andre Gide, Wilde said, "I have put my talent into my work and my genius into my life [my translation]." Max Beerbohm, among others, claimed that Wilde's conversation was a supreme delight. W. H. Auden judged that except in his masterpiece *The Importance of Being Earnest* Wilde was primarily a performer, not an artist. This book brings the reader closer to that personality, that performer, made all the more moving by the reader's knowing, as the participants could not, what the consequences of his inquisition would be.
In honesty I must add that I read this book in a hardcover version published by William Hodge and Company in June 1948. I have not seen the Dover Books edition. Because it has the same title, it is doubtless the same as the one I know. It will be a treasure for the devotee.
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Title: The Cambridge Companion to Oscar Wilde by Peter Raby ISBN: 0521479878 Publisher: Cambridge University Press Pub. Date: 16 October, 1997 List Price(USD): $23.00 |
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Title: Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellman ISBN: 0394759842 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 05 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: De Profundis and Other Writings (Penguin Classics) by Oscar Wilde, Hesketh Pearson ISBN: 014043089X Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: August, 1976 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Plays Unpleasant: Widowers' Houses/the Philanderer/Mrs Warren's Profession by Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence, George Bernard Shaw, David Edgar ISBN: 0140437932 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 02 January, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Plays Pleasant: Arms and the Man/Candida/the Man of Destiny/You Never Can Tell by George Bernard Shaw, Dan H. Laurence, W. J. McCormack, Bernard Shaw ISBN: 0140437940 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 26 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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