Recollections of Oscar Wilde - Charles Ricketts Constructed from Coppola’s personal collection

Constructed from Coppola’s personal collection of photographs and ephemera

style and an earnest make-believe that is refreshing in light of today’s hyper self-awareness and image saturation

adequately crushed

Kujō Kyōko

describing the narrator's sexual odyssey through a Paris still haunted by AIDS

Recollections of Oscar Wilde - Charles Ricketts Constructed from Coppola’s personal collectionRecollections of Oscar Wilde is one of the most evocative and charming texts ever written about Wilde and the circles he moved in. Charles Ricketts (1866 1931), painter, illustrator, theatrical designer and publisher, was one of Wildes closest friends; he also worked on stage productions and books with Wilde. He later set up his own, hugely influential presses. Shortly before he died he finally wrote this account of his friendship with Wilde, partly