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It was in the winter of 1883. Oscar had recently returned from a lecture tour in America where he had been exploited as a sort of brilliant clown. This was the heyday of his aesthetic period, the day of the velvet jacket, the flowing cloak, and the soft felt hat. None of the major works had yet been written; the Anierican dollars were soon spent, and on his return he was obliged to continue lecturing.
Extracted from Horizon (Marion, Ohio), vi (autumn 1964) 46–7.
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Nichols, B. (1979). Breakfast with Oscar. In: Mikhail, E.H. (eds) Oscar Wilde. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03923-4_43
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