Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity by David M. Friedman

Wilde in America: Oscar Wilde and the Invention of Modern Celebrity

David M. Friedman

304 pages first pub 2014 (editions)

nonfiction biography history funny informative lighthearted slow-paced
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On January 3, 1882, Oscar Wilde, a twenty-seven-year-old “genius”—at least by his own reckoning—arrived in New York. The Dublin-born Oxford man had made such a spectacle of himself in London with his eccentric fashion sense, acerbic wit, and extra...

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