Sin and Crime

When, as a teenage boy during the First World War, the author Beverley Nichols (1898–1983) was found reading Oscar Wilde’sThe Picture of Dorian Grayby his father, it was as if he had been “caught in an illicit act”: his father “spat on the book and tore the pages with his teeth. ‘Oscar Wilde! To thi...

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1. Verfasser:	James Patrick Wilper
Format:	Buchkapitel
Sprache:	eng
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Zusammenfassung:	When, as a teenage boy during the First World War, the author Beverley Nichols (1898–1983) was found reading Oscar Wilde’sThe Picture of Dorian Grayby his father, it was as if he had been “caught in an illicit act”: his father “spat on the book and tore the pages with his teeth. ‘Oscar Wilde! To think that my son . . .’ Beverley protested that he did not know what Wilde had done” (Connon,Beverley Nichols40). Nichols’s biographer questions whether this innocence was feigned, considering the fact that Nichols knew to hide the book and to read