Crushed: The Pity of Oscar Wilde: Together with The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Crushed: The Pity of Oscar Wilde: Together with The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Andre Gide, Oscar Wilde, Stuart Mason
English | March 15, 2017 | ISBN: 1544696132 | 58 pages | AZW3 | 0.54 MB
English | March 15, 2017 | ISBN: 1544696132 | 58 pages | AZW3 | 0.54 MB
Andre Gide presents his remembrances and candid impressions of Wilde the person and the writer, focusing on the changes he observed in his friend once Wilde settled in France after his release from Reading Jail. In prison, we learn, Wilde discovered the beauty of pity through his friendships with fellow inmates. At the end of Gide's last meeting with Wilde in Paris shortly before Wilde's death, Wilde admits he is penniless and asks Gide not to be angry with "one who has been crushed." This volume also contains a complete version of Wilde's The Ballad of Reading Gaol, written about his experiences. Stuart Mason provides an introduction, notes, and bibliography. Editor Michael Wilson adds photographs and commentary.