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Constable & Co, London - first edition ISBN:0094757208, 1997. Hardcover, 6½" x 9½", with dust jacket. Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD unclipped dust jacket. Twenty-one b&w photographs, bibliography, and index. In the autumn of 1891 Oscar Wilde set about conquering literary Paris. In the process he bowled over the 22-year-old Andre Gide. They met repeatedly over the next ten years (in France, Italy & North Africa). By the time of Wilde's death in 1900 he was impoverished and disgraced, while Gide was well launched on a literary career which would lead to the Nobel Prize. This book charts the stormy emotions of the Gide-Wilde friendship and their influence on each other.