{"product_id":"oscar-wildes-crucifix-9781940423210","title":"Oscar Wildes Crucifix","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWhile a student at Oxford, Oscar Wilde was courting a beautiful Dublin girl, Florence Balcombe, and on Christmas Day 1876 he presented her with a love gift of a golden crucifix. Two years later, Florence surprised Oscar by suddenly marrying another young writer from Dublin, Bram Stoker, the future author of \u003ci\u003eDracula\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eDutch writer Maarten Asscher uses that crucifix as a fulcrum to examine Wilde’s early development as an artist, from a seminal trip to Greece to his whirlwind tour of America and beyond, including real-life encounters with Walt Whitman and Arthur Conan Doyle. Asscher draws on the complete panoply of Wilde scholarship to supplement historical fact with imaginative reconstruction, including a myth-busting account of Wilde’s deathbed in Paris, and a fictional solution to the mystery of the crucifix delivered by none other than Sherlock Holmes.  The result is a convincing and original interpretation of Victorian history, and a literary tour de force.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Four Winds Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51043316072791,"sku":"9781940423210","price":13.46,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/oscar-wildes-crucifix-9781940423210","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}