TY - BOOK AU - Hichens,Robert TI - The Green Carnation AV - PR PY - 2008/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Authors -- Fiction KW - Biographical fiction KW - London (England) -- Fiction KW - Ireland -- Fiction KW - Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 -- Fiction KW - Gay men -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Green_Carnation; Release date is 2008-02-02; E-text prepared by Annie McGuire, Suzanne Shell, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team; Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Green Carnation" by Robert Hichens is a novel first published anonymously in 1894. This witty satire targets the Aesthetic Movement through its thinly veiled portraits of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas. At London dinner parties and country estates, the characters champion artifice over nature through brilliant conversation and studied poses. When a young widow grows disturbed by what the symbolic green carnation represents, she must choose between attraction and principle. Briefly withdrawn after Wilde's scandalous trial, the novel remains a sharp commentary on artistic individualism and affectation. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/24499 ER -