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Declaring His Genius

Oscar Wilde in North America

Roy Morris, Jr.

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$26.95 • £23.95 • €24.95

ISBN 9780674066960

Publication Date: 01/07/2013

264 pages

5-1/2 x 8-1/4 inches

27 halftones

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Roy Morris, Jr., is the author of numerous books, including Lighting Out for the Territory: How Samuel Clemens Headed West and Became Mark Twain.

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In the Los Angeles Times, read Roy Morris, Jr.’s account of the quintessential early celebrity’s affair with the left coast
At the Huffington Post, read Morris’s introduction to Wilde’s scandalous invasion of America, and view a slideshow of Wilde’s infamous bons mots
Read a Harvard Crimson interview with Oscar Wilde, conducted during his 1882 campus visit
Visit “Oscar Wilde in America,” an online resource of historical information related to Wilde’s time in America
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