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Oscar Wilde and the yellow 'nineties Oscar Wilde -- Speranza -- The student -- The aesthete tries his wings -- Lily of love pure inviolate -- A most intense young man -- The sunflower comes to America -- The lecturing Ossian -- In the gown of Balzac -- Constance -- Wilde and the butterfly -- Part two: And the yellow 'nineties -- On the threshold of the 'nineties -- Dorian Gray -- The lost generation -- The higher philosophy -- Success -- Enter the Marquis of Queensberry -- The green carnation -- The yellow book and The savoy -- The Marquis leaves a card -- The booby trap -- Morality versus art -- The love that dare not speak its name -- The trap shuts down -- De profundis -- The ballad of Reading Gaol -- In the circle of the Boulevards

1941 · ref. 007179 — Garden City N.Y. Blue Ribbon Books 1941 1941. Hardcover. Very Good/Good. vii 381 pages frontispiece portrait 22 cm ; LCCN: 41-24742 ; LC: PR5823; Dewey: 928.2 ; OCLC: 635129 ; orange cloth in dustjacket ; Contents: Part one: Oscar Wilde -- Speranza -- The student -- The aesthete tries his wings -- Lily of love pure inviolate -- A most intense young man -- The sunflower comes to America -- The lecturing Ossian -- In the gown of Balzac -- Constance -- Wilde and the butterfly -- Part two: And the yellow 'nineties -- On the threshold of the 'nineties -- Dorian Gray -- The lost generation -- The higher philosophy -- Success -- Enter the Marquis of Queensberry -- The green carnation -- The yellow book and The savoy -- The Marquis leaves a card -- The booby trap -- Morality versus art -- The love that dare not speak its name -- The trap shuts down -- De profundis -- The ballad of Reading Gaol -- In the circle of the Boulevards. ; dustjacket illustration by Simon ; name on front endpaper ; VG Garden City, N.Y., Blue Ribbon Books, 1941 hardcover