In early 1895, the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of Wilde's young lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, left a card at Wilde's club bearing the phrase "posing sodomite." Wilde sued the Marquess for ...
It is hard to be in Paris without reflecting on the life of Oscar Wilde, who lived in the city as a rising star: fluent in ...
Europa Editions; 704 pages; $34 and £30 “A FLYING ANGEL with an erection.” That is how Oscar Wilde’s son described the winged ...