An Ideal Husband Oscar Wilde

The room is brilliantly lighted and full of guests. At the top of the staircase stands LADY CHILTERN, a woman of grave Greek beauty, about twenty-seven years of age. She receives the guests as they come up. Over the well of the staircase hangs a great chandelier with wax lights, which illumine a large eighteenth-century French tapestry-representing the Triumph of Love, from a design by Boucher-that is stretched on the staircase wall. On the right is the entrance to the music-room. The sound of a string quartette is faintly heard. The entrance on the left leads to other reception-rooms. MRS. MARCHMONT and LADY BASILDON, two very pretty women, are seated together on a Louis Seize sofa. They are types of exquisite fragility. Their affectation of manner has a delicate charm. Watteau would have loved to paint them.

• | Author: Oscar Wilde, Paula Benitez
• | Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• | Publication Date: Mar 20, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 98 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1986678458
• | ISBN-13: 9781986678452