The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
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The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde is a 1983 novel by Peter Ackroyd. It won the Somerset Maugham Award[1]
Plot summary
The novel is written in the form of a diary which
fairy tales
much like those Wilde wrote, although again these are wholly Ackroyd's invention. The last pages are written in the character of Maurice, Wilde's valet.
References
- ^ O'Mahony, John (2 July 2004). "Profile: Peter Ackroyd". The Guardian.
External links
- Ukko Hänninen: Rewriting Literary History: Peter Ackroyd and Intertextuality Archived 10 September 2019 at the Wayback Machine