Oscar Wilde (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Oscar WildeMy interest in Oscar Wilde is a very old story, I went to hear him lecture when I was a boy, and, boy like, I wrote and asked him for his autograph, which he sent me and which I still have.It seems strange that I can look back through thirty years to his visit to Philadelphia, and in imagi nation see him on the platform of old Horticultural Hall. I remember too the discussion which his visit to Philadelphia occasioned, preceded as it was by the publication in Boston, of his volume of Poems, the English edition having been received with greater cordiality than usually marks a young poet's first production - for such it practically was.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.