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As a result of nearly twenty years’ friendship I have written a life of Oscar Wilde. The publishers of this book of ‘Portraits’ wish me to sketch him here in a dozen pages. Replicas in art are unthinkable: even a hen cannot lay two eggs exactly alike; but I can take some pages from my book here and there, and so give some idea of the man and his excelling humor, though in such narrow limits I cannot trust myself to speak of his deeper self and tragic fate. Here is a snapshot, so to speak, with apologies to the reader, who will have to use imagination to stuff out the meagre outline.
Contemporary Portraits (London: Methuen, 1915) pp. 90–118; (New York: Mitchell Kennerley, 1915) pp. 97–126.
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Harris, F. (1979). Oscar Wilde. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Oscar Wilde. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03926-5_39
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