Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas A Correspondence - Oxford Letters & Memoirs

Bernard Shaw, Alfred Bruce Douglas (aut), Mary Hyde Eccles Eccles (ed)

Paperback (21 Sep 1989)

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Publisher's Synopsis

Many years after the downfall of Oscar Wilde, Alfred Douglas, hoping to boost sales of his autobiography, asked Bernard Shaw to write the preface. An unlikely but enduring friendship developed from this first letter, and the entire collection is presented in this book.;The subjects covered by the letters include comments on Wilde and his circle, Shakespeare and Ibsen, Einstein, Freud and Marx, Eliot and Auden, Chamberlain, Hitler and others.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780192826831
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Imprint:	Oxford University Press
Pub date:	21 Sep 1989
DEWEY:	822.912
DEWEY edition:	20
Number of pages:	237
Weight:	-1g