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Friedman, David M - Wilde in America : Oscar Wilde and the invention of modern celebrity / David M. Friedman

Title: Wilde in America : Oscar Wilde and the invention of modern celebrity / David M. Friedman
Description: New York : W.W. Norton & Company 2014. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. Literally as new. Physical description; 316 pages. 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm. Summary; Oscar Wilde was hired to go to America to promote a Gilbert & Sullivan work by presenting lectures on interior decorating. But Wilde had his own business plan. He would go to promote himself. And he did. traveling some 15.000 miles and visiting 150 American cities as he created a template for fame creation that still works today. Subject; Wilde. Oscar 1854-1900 — Travel — United States. ISBN: 0393063178.

Keywords: 0393063178

Price: EUR 9.95 = appr. US$ 10.81 Seller: MW Books
- Book number: 274036