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Did Oscar Wilde really write this?
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OTOOH, I kind of think it's actually someone else using Wilde as their pseudonym. I don't have any proof for that though.
Supposedly, it was written by him under his (often used) pseudonym Sebastian Melmoth for the magazine/journal The Pearl. It was translated into Czech under his name, but may have never been republished in book form in English.The data on this is fairly weak, but believable.
I checked it on the Pearl, every issue except the 1879 Christmas supplement and it wasn't there. It would be unlikely to be there as the magazine published serials. The closest was Lady Pokingham or They All do It. Might be the same thing with a somewhat cruder name, I don't know.Wasn't Melmoth the inspiration for the angel on Wilde's tomb?
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Ok, same thing then. Its a bawdy, serialised story on a par with Fanny Hill.
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Terly without redeeming social importance"♪♫
They acquitted your Aunt Hortense too, rivka? ;)
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Since they're already there, just copy-and-paste: ♪♫
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I am quite familiar with Oscar Wilde but have never heard of this before. Given that I was taught Wilde in school that isn't surprising. The only possibly legitimate trace of it I can find is in the Worldcat with only one copy in the National Library of the Czech Republic. I myself think its a fake but who knows, Wilde was nothing if not an iconoclast.