A biographical account of the cross-channel literary relationship between Oscar Wilde and Andre Gide which charts the Gide-Wilde friendship and provides an insight into the international gay community and accompanying moral climate of the 1890s.

Andre and Oscar: Gide, Wilde and the Gay Art of Living

Biographies & Memoirs

Fryer, Jonathan

Arts & Literature

Constable and Company Ltd.

Robbie Ross

Constable

Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell Sitwell rarely missed an opportunity to promote themselves or denounce their sworn enemy, the Philistine. The Sitwells were natural subjects, and targets, for the media. Unconventional, aristocratic, and physically imposing, they were bold, talented, and provocative. This book celebrates their lives and their artistic crusade, which brought them into contact and conflict with many of the leading figures of the arts in the early part of this century. Gertrude Stein, T.S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Evelyn Waugh were among their friends; their favorite enemies included Wyndham Lewis, Noel Coward, and D.H. Lawrence. The book begins with their childhood at Renishaw, the ancestral home in Derbyshire, England, and with their ill-matched parents, the eccentric Sir George and the extravagant Lady Ida. It follows them to London, to the fashionable circles of Bloomsbury and the elegant drawing rooms of celebrated society hostesses; and to Paris, to the studios Modigliani and Picasso. It discusses their involvement with the Russian ballet, their early literary ventures, and their patronage of the young composer William Walton, which resulted in Facade, their most famous collaboration. In 1925, Sacheverell Sitwell married the beautiful and spirited Georgia Doble, which precipitated the break-up of the trio. The book's final chapters are devoted to the individual lives of Edith, Osbert, and Sacheverell; their friendships, their literary successes and failures, their fame, and their continuing battles.

The Sitwells and the Arts of the 1920s and 1930s (Literary Modernism Series)

Arts & Photography

Pearson, John

Gibson, Robin

BRADFORD, Sarah

Clerk, Honor

History & Criticism

University of Texas Press

A striking portrait of the friendship between a controversial British playwright and an unconventional French novelist uses personal letters and intimate journals to explore this unlikely relationship.

Andre & Oscar: The Literary Friendship of Andre Gide and Oscar Wilde

St Martins Pr

In the Autumn of 1891, Oscar Wilde set about conquering literary Paris. Gide was dazzled by the Irishman's energy and verve, but was driven to the edge of a nervous breakdown by Wilde's merciless paradoxes and questioning of religious faith. The two writers met repeatedly over the next ten years in France, Italy, and North Africa, both before and after Wilde's imprisonment. But by the time Wilde died in Paris in 1900, the tables had been turned. He was impoverished and disgraced, while Gide was well launched on a literary career that would make him the most famous French writer of his generation and win him the Nobel Prize. Andre and Oscar charts the stormy emotions of the Gide-Wilde friendship as well as the influence they had on each other. But it also looks at the two men's live through the eyes of their mothers, their wives, and their lovers, documented largely through diaries and letters from the period and illustrated with contemporary photographs. The book also provides an often surprising insight into what W. H. Auden would much later call the "Homintern" - an international network of gay men and their young companions - as well as the moral hypocrisy of the 1890s.

Andre and Oscar: The Literary Friendship of Andre Gide and Oscar Wilde

St. Martin's: Griffin

Isherwood

DOUBLEDAY

Physical description: 88 pages ; 22 cm. Notes: ausgewahlt von H. Osmin. Subject: Music - Humor. Musicians - Humor. Music. Musicians. Genre: Text.

Isherwood: A biography of Christopher Isherwood

New English Library

Published in time for the hundredth anniversary of Oscar Wilde's death, this unique biography of literary companionship recreates the life of Robbie Ross, Wilde's lover and greatest defender in the wake of the literary master's death.

Robbie Ross: Oscar Wilde's Devoted Friend

Carroll & Graf Pub.

In a compelling narrative of moral courage and personal integrity, this biography tells the story of Robert Baldwin Ross, the man who first seduced Oscar Wilde and never wavered in his loyalty to the flamboyant wit and playwright. Unfailingly, Ross stood by Wilde through the scandals that shocked a nation, through his much-publicized trials and imprisonment, at his deathbed in Paris—and thereafter dedicated himself to defending the reputation of his famous friend.

Carroll&Graf

Eye of the Camera: A Life of Christopher Isherwood

Allison & Busby (1993)

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Andre and Oscar: Gide, Wilde and the Gay Art of Living

Robbie Ross

The Sitwells and the Arts of the 1920s and 1930s (Literary Modernism Series)

Andre & Oscar: The Literary Friendship of Andre Gide and Oscar Wilde

Andre and Oscar: The Literary Friendship of Andre Gide and Oscar Wilde

Isherwood

Isherwood: A biography of Christopher Isherwood

Robbie Ross: Oscar Wilde's Devoted Friend

Robbie Ross: Oscar Wilde's Devoted Friend

Eye of the Camera: A Life of Christopher Isherwood