Description: THE WORKS OF OSCAR WILDE: ESSAYS & STORIES BY LADY WILDE (SPERANZA)1909, LEATHER BOUND, LAMB PUBLISHING CO., NEW YORKLIMITED EDITION #158 OF ONE THOUSAND COPIESCONDITION: VERY GOOD VINTAGE RARE FIND (From “AMERICAN WOMEN” quoted from the book) “The first question propounded to a traveller on returning from a transatlantic tour is usually, "What is your opinion of American women?" for, in truth, the American woman is by far the most important element in the social machinery of the States. Her reputation for beauty and smartness has spread over the whole earth, and to doubt her fascination would be a heresy even beyond this agnostic age. However, we are, fortunately, not wholly dependent on the crude judgment of awe-struck, startled travellers, saturated as they are with old-world prejudice, and prisoned in its narrow, conventional traditions; for the Americans, having already interviewed and exhausted all Eu-rope, are now laudably engaged in the process of interviewing each other, and that with an acuteness and insight far beyond the observing faculty of the bewildered foreigner. Nothing, in fact, can be more interesting than…”
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Binding: Leather
Place of Publication: NEW YORK
Signed: No
Publisher: LAMB PUBLISHING CO
Subject: Literature & Fiction
Original/Facsimile: Original
Year Printed: 1909
Language: English
Special Attributes: Illustrated, Limited Edition, Sunflower Edition
Author: LADY WILDE
Region: Europe
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Topic: Literature
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
