Oscar Wilde, The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray, edited by Nicholas Frankel Belknap, 2012
Oscar Wilde, The Sphinx, with Decorations by Charles Ricketts, edited by Nicholas Frankel Rice U. Press, 2010
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Sex, censorship, paranoia and persecution, aestheticism as a movement and practice, and the first stirrings of what might be called the modern gay identity: the story of Oscar Wilde has it all. Nicholas Frankel discusses the Irish writer's expansive ideas, formidable impact, and dramatic downfall.