In 1895 Arthur Humphreys - a director of Hatchards and a friend of Oscar Wilde - printed fifty copies of a small eighty-eight-page compendium of Wilde's epigrams, culled from his published works. It was titled Oscariana. The initial selection had been made by Wilde's wife, Constance, but Wilde had not been entirely satisfied with it, and subsequently revised the whole text.
A pirated edition of a further two hundred copies of the book was produced in 1903, but otherwise it has remained out of print - until now. This new publication of Oscariana is a facsimile of this booklet, and the only selection of Wilde's wit endorsed and chosen by the author himself.
| ISBN: | 9781789540802 |
| Publication date: | 7th February 2019 |
| Author: | Oscar Wilde |
| Publisher: | Apollo an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK) |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 88 pages |
| Genres: |
Literary essays Humour collections and anthologies Gift Books |
In 1895 Arthur Humphreys - a director of Hatchards and a friend of Oscar Wilde - printed fifty copies of a small eighty-eight-page compendium of Wilde's epigrams, culled from his published works. It was titled Oscariana.
Oscariana features in the following genres: Literary essays, Humour collections and anthologies, Gift Books
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Oscariana was written by Oscar Wilde and published by Apollo an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing (UK)
Oscariana has 88 pages