Publisher's Synopsis
Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde.Preface by Robert Ross - How they struck a contemporary - The quality of George Meredith - Life in the fallacious model - Life the disciple - Life the plagiarist - The indispensable east - The influence of the impressionists on climate - - An exposure to naturalism - Thomas Griffiths Wainewright - Wainewright at Hobart Town - Cardinal Newman and the autobiographers - Robert Browning - The two supreme and highest arts - The secrets of immortality - The critic and his material - Dante the living guide - The limitations of genius - Wanted a new background - Without frontiers - The poetry of archæology - The art of archæology - Herod suppliant - The tetrarch's remorse - The tetrarch's treasure - Salomé anticipates Dr. Strauss - The young king - A coronation - The king of Spain - A bull fight - The throne room - A protected country - The blackmailing of the emperor - Covent garden - A letter from Miss Jane Percy to her aunt - The triumph of American 'smoke r '- The garden of death - An Eton kit-cat - Mrs. Erlynne exercises the prerogative of a grandmother - Motherhood more than marriage - The damnable ideal - From a rejected prize-essay - The possibilities of the useful - The artist - The doer of good - The disciple - The master - The house of judgment - The teacher of wisdom - Wilde gives directions about 'De profundis'
