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At the peak of British playwright Oscar Wilde’s career, following the success of his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and the satirical play The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), his life was interrupted by scandal.

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Carmen Boullosa’s ‘Texas: The Great Theft’ reimagined the volatile Texas/Mexico borderland in historic fiction. Carmen Boullosa papers @nypl include research files, sketches, and drafts that underscore the foundation of many border issues today. https://t.co/DMYs7K6hNO https://t.co/scF1DXWh2j

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"I have left no time to tell you what a wonderful thing I think Ulysses is and will be. It will be unique." John Quinn, defender of Ulysses in its obscenity trial, writes James Joyce about its publication. Explore Quinn's digitized letterbooks: https://t.co/fY4gHlcbqk #Bloomsday https://t.co/yBaHuaiPTo

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At the peak of British playwright Oscar Wilde’s career, following the success of his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and the satirical play The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), his life was interrupted by scandal.

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We have a wide variety of materials created by Oscar Wilde in our Rare Book Division, including the earliest draft of Wilde’s play, The Importance of Being Earnest, handwritten by Wilde with frequent edits. Learn more about this one-of-a-kind item here: https://t.co/fIr5xHC14M https://t.co/W55uZM7VbR

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"I have left no time to tell you what a wonderful thing I think Ulysses is and will be. It will be unique." John Quinn, defender of Ulysses in its obscenity trial, writes James Joyce about its publication. Explore Quinn's digitized letterbooks: https://t.co/fY4gHlcbqk #Bloomsday https://t.co/yBaHuaiPTo

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Tomorrow at 1pm, it's the portrait of the artist as a young man at NYPL, as @NYPLArt chats with Svetlana Alpers about her newest book on photographer Walker Evans - join us at #WorkCitedNYPL! Register here: https://t.co/T8B5KK6xRO https://t.co/jXuQsyxbNe

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Gearing up for October book releases: "Divine Rascal: On the Trail of LSD's Cosmic Courier, Michael Hollingshead" By Andy Roberts. A biography of a key figure in psychedelic history: the man who turned Timothy Leary on to LSD. @mitpress @strangepress https://t.co/QfTAuKT0ZQ https://t.co/J4j94Wiahl

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We have a wide variety of materials created by Oscar Wilde in our Rare Book Division, including the earliest draft of Wilde’s play, The Importance of Being Earnest, handwritten by Wilde with frequent edits. Learn more about this one-of-a-kind item here: https://t.co/fIr5xHC14M https://t.co/W55uZM7VbR

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At the peak of British playwright Oscar Wilde’s career, following the success of his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891) and the satirical play The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), his life was interrupted by scandal.

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