by Oscar Wilde · Edições Quasi · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789895523795
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«O Retrato do Sr. W.H.» is Oscar Wilde's fictional essay, published by Edições Quasi in paperback (94 pages, in Portuguese).
Oscar Wilde blends literary criticism and speculation to address the identity of Mr. W.H., the dedicatee of Shakespeare's Sonnets in their first edition. The story proposes that this mysterious figure was a young and handsome actor, moving between essay and fiction with the characteristic wit of the Irish author.
Story originally published in 1889 as «The Portrait of Mr. W.H.»; the edition includes a translation by André Pinto.
For readers of classic literature interested in Oscar Wilde, the mystery of Mr. W.H., and the blend of essay and fiction.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
