{"product_id":"9780856675263","title":"Wilde Years: Oscar Wilde and His Times","description":"\u003cp\u003eFocusing on the last quarter of the nineteenth century, The Wilde Years features Oscar Wilde as a central, catalytic figure linking two artistic capitals, London and Paris. Wilde is presented as a multi-faceted artist, whose major achievement was language, with which he contributed to the development of artistic and cultural movements of his age. In his lifetime, Wilde was praised as a poet, writer, and, in particular, playwright, but this publication throws new light on his lesser-known work as an art critic, journalist and progressive political thinker. The book is a tribute to the man who, in his own words, 'stood in symbolic relations to the art and culture of my age.'\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eCelebrated for his wit and flamboyant personality, Oscar Wilde was a central figure in the artistic worlds of fin-de-siecle London and Paris. He was a poet, playwright, art critic and, above all, he was known as a virtuoso 'conversationalist.' Furthermore, the extremity of his fate - imprisonment following his trials in 1895 for homosexual activities - made his name unforgettable as a 'martyr' of the time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wilson, Philip Publishers, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47027223789808,"sku":"9780856675263","price":70.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780856675263_p0.jpg?v=1763756136","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780856675263","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}