The Complete Illustrated Works of Oscar Wilde
By Oscar Wilde.
Description
Ulac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn. From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-hags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes. Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honeycolored blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flame-like as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese eiffect, ...
ISBN(s)
0753724782, 9780753724781
