The Annotated Oscar Wilde
Edited, With Introductions & Annotations by H. Montgomery Hyde
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Selected poems, prose fiction, plays, lectures and essays, and letters. With contemporary photographs and illustrations.
Hyde schreef tal van werken die zich verdiepen in de ingewikkelde wereld van spionage en politiek gekonkel. Zijn literaire benadering wordt gekenmerkt door een diepgaande verkenning van inlichtingenoperaties en de diplomatieke inspanningen achter de schermen die de mondiale aangelegenheden vormden. Hyde's schrijven ontrafelt nauwgezet de verborgen mechanismen van macht, waarbij cruciale figuren en gebeurtenissen worden geanalyseerd die onuitwisbare sporen hebben achtergelaten in de 20e-eeuwse geschiedenis. Lezers worden aangetrokken door zijn vermogen om de sluier van geheimen op te lichten en inzichten te bieden in de clandestiene wereld van geheime operaties en politieke intriges.



Edited, With Introductions & Annotations by H. Montgomery Hyde
Selected poems, prose fiction, plays, lectures and essays, and letters. With contemporary photographs and illustrations.
Aesthete, dandy, poet, dramatist and philosopher Oscar Wilde's wit and charm dazzled society in London, America and Paris in the late 1880s. But the year 1895 brought Wilde literary triumph -with two plays achieving phenomenal success in London's West End -and personal disaster. Urged on by his friend Lord Alfred Douglas, Wilde brought a libel action against Lord Alfred's father, the eccentric Marquess of Queensberry. The ensuing trials at the Old Bailey revealed Wilde's reckless adventures in the London underworld and he was sentenced to two years' imprisonment with hard labour. This fascinating biography examines both sides of Wilde's the artistic genius.