Oscar Wilde - The Complete Interviews - Volume Two

<p>This complete collection of Oscar Wilde's interviews gives readers the opportunity to hear one of history's greatest conversationalists in full flow. Newspaper interviewers repeatedly sought Wilde out for his Oscarisms - his trademark witty phrases - as well as his views on topics ranging from poetry to politics and acting to architecture. The vast majority of Wilde's interviews have never been reprinted since the nineteenth-century and until now many have been unknown even to Wilde scholars. All 230 of Wilde's known interviews are transcribed in this comprehensively annotated collection.</p><p>Volume One contains an introduction and the 1880-1882 interviews (502 pages 15 B&W images). Volume Two contains the 1883-1900 interviews over fifty interviews about Wilde by his contemporaries burlesque interviews other articles of interest a list of as yet untraced interviews and an index covering both volumes (440 pages 8 B&W images). Interviews not in the English language are given in their original languages and as new English translations.</p><p>Rob Marland is the author of <em>Oscar Wilde: The Season of Sorrow</em> (2018) a graphic biography that tells the story of Wilde's imprisonment. His research on Wilde has been published in <em>The Wildean</em> the journal of the Oscar Wilde Society and <em>Notes and Queries</em>.</p>