CharactersMr. Wilde
Mr. Wilde is the self-styled repairer of reputations who supplies Hildred Castaigne with an imperial genealogy in The Repairer of Reputations. His claimed network of clients and agents combines knowledge, blackmail and the ominous vocabulary of The King in Yellow. The reader encounters his authority through Hildred’s intensely admiring account.
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