{"product_id":"a-purple-thread","title":"A Purple Thread","description":"\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Supernatural Doom of Oscar Wilde\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Peculiar Parish Edition by Nina Antonia \u0026amp; Nathaniel Winter-Hébert\u003cbr\u003e32 pages, with black-and-white illustrations throughout\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eEven before his birth, the life of Oscar Wilde was one shaped by dark, otherworldly forces. From a childhood spent in the fabled lands of Tír na nÓg to his star-crossed romance with Lord Alfred Douglas, Wilde’s trajectory through the artistic and social worlds of his day seemed guided by strange fate, some of it prophesied in his most famous works, including \u003cem\u003eSalomé\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Picture of Dorian Gray\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003eIn this focused biographical account, author Nina Antonia examines the florid tapestry of the playwright’s tragic ascent and fall, revealing, as Wilde himself called it, “the note of doom that like a purple thread” ran through—and eventually cut short—the life of one of literature’s most celebrated and scandalous icons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNina Antonia\u003c\/strong\u003e’s other works include the novel \u003cem\u003eThe Greenwood Faun\u003c\/em\u003e (Egaeus Press, 2017) and the collection \u003cem\u003eIncurable\u003c\/em\u003e (Strange Attractor Press, 2018), both of which explore the lives and works of Decadent-era poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Purple Thread\u003c\/em\u003e is designed and illustrated by \u003cstrong\u003eNathaniel Winter-Hébert\u003c\/strong\u003e, a Canadian artist whose work is familiar to readers of the British zines \u003cem\u003eHellebore\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Ghastling\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fiddler's Green Peculiar Parish Magazine","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51112093024541,"sku":null,"price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0821\/9095\/8877\/files\/Oscar-Cover-for-Web.webp?v=1777481527","url":"https:\/\/staging.anovelideaphilly.com\/products\/a-purple-thread","provider":"A Novel Idea on Passyunk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}