370 Oscar Wilde - A Life (with Matthew Sturgis) | PLUS A Glimpse of Literary Hell (with Scott G. Bruce)
The History of Literature
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Is There a Danger of a Loss of a Hero?
Oscar wild's one glorious moment of his early life was when he spent a year in america, and going on in a sort of ever extended lecture tor. He came away from that with money, but i'm not a huge amount of mon you kno,. 60 thousand pounds, 90 thousands dollars in to day's money. But it was an excitement, sort of, for him to have earned money. So i understand that if we take this out of chronological order, we kind of miss, we impose some later success on the younger oscar wilde. Is there also the danger of making the early life as if it's marching toward this inevitable, doomed scenario? Or did you
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