Salome - Oscar Wilde. Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley!

Location: Yonge and College /downtown Toronto Cash only; prices are firm. "Few works in English literature have so peculiar a history as Oscar Wilde's play Salome. Written originally in French in 1892 and ridiculed on its publication; translated into English by Lord Alfred Douglas and again heaped with scorn, it has survived for 75 years, served as the text for Richard Strauss' world-famous opera, and emerged as an acknowledged masterwork of the Aesthetic movement of fin de siecle England. The illustrations that Aubrey Beardsley prepared for the first English edition have no less strange a story. Beardsley liked neither the play nor its author. Yet, it inspired some of his finest work. It is an open question as to how suited the drawings generally are to the text that Wilde wrote. Yet, the two, the play and the Beardsley illustrations, have nevertheless become so identified with each other as to be inseparable..." - Salome - Oscar Wilde Illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley Feel free to check out my other book posts as well!

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