Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900

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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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...."

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Text begins with Chapter 2: "Wilde at Oxford".

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Draft includes title and preliminary pages; Introduction; text begins: "Chapter 1: Toil of Growing Up...Oscar Wilde first emerges for us into articulate being in 1868 when he was thirteen...."