Other rare items, available for purchase in February, include illustrations, theater programs, telegrams and newspapers ...

In a modern reimagining of Wilde’s classic tale, schoolchildren find refuge in a beautiful garden, but when a snarling, ginger-haired giant arrives, he angrily chases the children away and builds a ...

Constance Wilde knows how she appears to the public after her husband Oscar’s 1895 conviction for so-called acts of gross indecency. “The poor little waif, the blinkered wifey,” Constance says ...

Striking, sexy and sepia-toned, the photographs of sun-kissed male physiques and their Romanesque laurel-crowned cosplay featured in the new book Oscar Wilde’s Italian Dream 1875–1900 (Damiani) might ...

In Nancy Mitford’s “The Pursuit of Love,” the young narrator, Fanny—this is circa World War I—asks her Aunt Sadie what mysterious crime Oscar Wilde had committed. Sadie, greatly flustered, admits that ...

One of the most significant Oscar Wilde collections known is heading to sale. Photos, documents, and rare books all carry ...

One hundred and twenty-five years after his death, Oscar Wilde continues to unsettle the boundary between art and life. A major collection coming to auction in London invites a reconsideration of how ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By David Hare OSCAR WILDE A Life By Matthew Sturgis In her new collection of stories, “The Master of ...

When she studied acting in London in the 1950s, she was told she was unlikely to find work. She ended up starting one of the country’s foremost Black theaters. By Stella Raine Chu The Irish writer was ...