On a mild December afternoon in 1898, two men sat beneath a large umbrella on the terrace of L’Hôtel des Bains, high on a pine-clad hill above the sleepy fishing port of La Napoule, 8km west of Cannes ...

Oscar Wilde, the celebrated Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and essayist, was a master of wit and social commentary. Beyond his well-known plays, Wilde penned a range of prose that continues to ...