Beardsley was a precocious child and remained one, said Oscar Wilde, until he died at the early age of twenty-five. In this fascinating examination of a singular artist, the talented British novelist and essayist Brigid Brophy finds that “the genius of Beardsley’s eroticism is precisely the quality Freud ascribed to the sexuality of children Since the publication of her prizewinning novel, HACKENFELLER’S APE, in 1953, Miss Brophy has won honors and praise for seven more books. Her next, a collection entitled THE BURGLAR, will be published in May by Henry Holt.

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