This ebook records how Oscar Wilde was once appropriated as a fictional personality via a minimum of thirty-two of his contemporaries, together with such celebrated writers as Joseph Conrad, Arthur Conan Doyle, Henry James, George Bernard Shaw and Bram Stoker.
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