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This review is from: Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas: A Correspondence (Letters & memoirs) (Paperback)
I am a fan of the fin de sicle period and Victorian England in particular. I read extensively about Oscar Wilde and his association with Alfred Douglas and most accounts of their relationship was vamped up or sensationalized for sales. The leters between Shaw and Douglas are the best chronicle of the events that led up to and after the downfall of Wilde and the disgrace of Douglas. Had Douglas and for that matter, Wilde listened to Shaw, the infamous trial of Wilde would have never taken place. Shaw advised Wilde to leave England and let the whole matter of his homosexuality subside. Wilde, at some urging from Douglas, remained, and of course was arrested and tried and convicted. The rest is a sad history of decline of one of Victoria's finest authors, essayist and pamphleteer. James
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Bernard Shaw and Alfred Douglas, a correspondence by George Bernard Shaw (Hardcover - 1982)
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