{"product_id":"a-purple-thread-the-supernatural-doom-of-oscar-wilde","title":"A Purple Thread: The Supernatural Doom of Oscar Wilde","description":"\u003cmain\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"wrap\" class=\"js_sale o_wsale_product_page ecom-zoomable\" data-ecom-zoom-click=\"1\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"product_full_description\" class=\"oe_structure oe_empty mt16\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Purple Thread: The Supernatural Doom of Oscar Wilde \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e(magazine)\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Peculiar Parish Edition by Nina Antonia \u0026amp; Nathaniel Winter-Hébert\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\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\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\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\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\n\u003cp\u003e”An elegant prose meditation on the sense of the fateful in Oscar Wilde’s life and work.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMark Valentine\u003c\/strong\u003e, \u003cem\u003eWormwoodiana\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"oe_structure oe_structure_solo oe_unremovable oe_unmovable\" id=\"oe_structure_website_sale_recommended_products\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"oe_structure oe_empty oe_structure_not_nearest mt16\" id=\"oe_structure_website_sale_product_2\" data-editor-message=\"DROP BUILDING BLOCKS HERE TO MAKE THEM AVAILABLE ACROSS ALL PRODUCTS\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"o_shared_blocks\" class=\"oe_unremovable\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/main\u003e\u003cfooter id=\"bottom\" data-anchor=\"true\" data-name=\"Footer\" class=\"o_footer o_colored_level o_cc\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv id=\"footer\" class=\"oe_structure oe_structure_solo\"\u003e32 pages, with black-and-white illustrations throughout\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/footer\u003e","brand":"Fiddler's Green","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58235976221053,"sku":"FG02","price":7.95,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/0317\/1357\/files\/Screenshot2026-05-3112.27.10.png?v=1780226843","url":"https:\/\/www.wheeloffate.co.uk\/products\/a-purple-thread-the-supernatural-doom-of-oscar-wilde","provider":"Wheel of Fate","version":"1.0","type":"link"}