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Heseltine explores Langley's fascination with Oscar Wilde, arguing that Langley's fiction represents an inevitable transformation into the Irish writer. The events that lead to this transformation are dramatized in The Pea-pickers and White Topee as Eve uses others to bring her closer to the pleasures of aesthetic creation. At the end of the Pea-pickers Eve stands alone with her troubled self, but at the end of White Topee she stands alone with Oscar Wilde, the alter ego which has taken possession of her being.
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Eve Langley : Oscar Wilde in the Blue Mountains
