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Oscar Wilde
- Reminiscences
- Narrated by: Bob Souer
- Length: 1 hr and 28 mins
- Unabridged Audiobook
- Categories: LGBTQ+, Biographies & Memoirs
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André Gide, a towering figure in French letters, draws upon his friendship with Oscar Wilde to sketch a compelling portrait of the tragic, doomed author, both celebrated and shunned in his time. Rather than compile a complete biography, Gide invites us to discover Wilde as he did - from their first meeting in 1891 to their final parting just two years before Wilde’s death - all told through Gide’s sensitive, incomparable prose. Using his notes, recollections, and conversations, Gide illuminates Wilde as a man whose true art was not writing, but living.