The Green Carnation : A Novel

The charming aesthete Esmé Amarinthe and his beautiful young acolyte Reggie Hastings live for art and artifice and reject all that is natural and "middle-class". When in the society of their peers, Esmé and Reggie elucidate and pontificate through endless epigrams and ironies that shock and entertain.But when a very real proposition of marriage to a wealthy widow enters the equation, Reggie wonders if he should go through with it, or continue his life of passionate paradox with Mr. Amarinthe.Robert Hichen's satire of Oscar Wilde is a romp that skewers the aesthetic ideals of the era while at the same time delighting in them.

• | Author: Robert Hichens
• | Publisher: Darley Press
• | Publication Date: May 20, 2021
• | Number of Pages: NA pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 195574100X
• | ISBN-13: 9781955741002