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Albert Camus & Oscar Wilde
La Ballade de la geôle de Reading
Paris, Falaize, (October 25) 1952.In late autumn 1954, Albert Camus was in Italy at the invitation of the Italian Cultural Association. He had not visited since 1938 and looked forward to “the joy of rediscovering it” (Carnets, III). There he delivered a lecture, repeated on six occasions: L'Artiste et son temps. Camus would take up this text again in…Sold
Oscar Wilde
Le Portrait de Dorian Gray
Paris, A. Savine, 1895.This translation was published four years after the first English-language edition of the revised text.By 1889, Oscar Wilde had tried his hand at poetry, theater, the tale, the short story, journalism and criticism, but never the novel. It was precisely that year that the American publisher J. M. Stoddart, seeking British writers for Lippincott's Monthly…Sold
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