Wilde in America : Oscar Wilde and the invention of modern celebrity / David M. Friedman
2014, First Edition. New York : W.W. Norton & Company. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Item #274036
ISBN: 0393063178
Physical description; 316 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Summary; Oscar Wilde was hired to go to America to promote a Gilbert & Sullivan work by presenting lectures on interior decorating. But Wilde had his own business plan. He would go to promote himself. And he did, traveling some 15,000 miles and visiting 150 American cities as he created a template for fame creation that still works today. Subject; Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900 — Travel — United States.
Price: €9.95