The 16th November is the birthday of Oscar Wilde's, in 1854 was the second child of William and Jane Wilde, under the name Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde born in Dublin. Even the twenty year old announced he wanted to be a poet and, moreover, famous. "And even if not famous, then at least notorious." And he was both.
place in my library, the biography of the American literary scholar Richard Ellmann (1918 - 1987). Famous of these was his biography of James Joyce (1959) and his work on William Butler Yeats. One of my greatest antiquarian Acquisitions was an issue of "Salome" with the 16 drawings by Beardsley Aubray (German translation by Curt Moreck) - an edition of the publisher Heinrich Böhme Hannover 1919, printed in the pharmacy of Mandruck- company in Munich. A scaled-down version brought to the island-Verlag Frankfurt 1919 Island Library No. 247 out (translation by Hedwig Lachmann).
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