β Scribed by Oscar Wilde
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
For centuries the mystery of the identity of Mr. W. H., the dedicatee of William Shakespeare's sonnets has confounded literary historians. Consumed with solving the mystery, Erskine comes to believe any evidence put in front of him--real or not.
Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel, the plays An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, and the short story collections Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories and The Happy Prince and Other Stories.
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