DAS BLINDIS DES MR. W. H. : LORD ARTHUR SAVILES VERBRECHEN

by translation, introduction, John Quinn, Jack Butler Yeats, Frederick

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First edition

Minden in Westf: J. C. C. Burns, 1903. 1st Edition Thus. Hardcover. First German translation of Wilde's short story, The Portrait of Mr. W. H. , first published in Blackwood's Magazine in 1889. It was later added to the collection Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories 1891 . The story is about an attempt to uncover the identity of Mr. W. H., the enigmatic dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets. which has led to

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