Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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Draft begins with pages ii-vi; first chapter titled "Toil of Growing Up" which begins: "Oscar Wilde first emerges for us into articulate being in a letter to his mother...."

Sub-chapter titled "Douglas Away" which begins: "Wilde wrote most of four plays and planned a fifth. With Douglas out of the way in Egypt for three months...."

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Text begins on page 461: "....could not exchange their roles was the idea with which Dorian Gray would alter; in the end each art would revert to its norm...."

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Section titled "Beginnings"; chapter titled "Toil of Growing Up" which begins: "Oscar Wilde first emerges for us into articulate being in a letter he wrote to his mother...."

First chapter and Introduction begins: "Oscar Wilde--we have only to hear the name to anticipate that what will be quoted as his will turn portentious conventionalities to frivolous insights...."

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