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Author | : Matthew Sturgis |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 865 |
Release | : 2021-10-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0525656367 |
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The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life. "Simply the best modern biography of Wilde." —Evening Standard Drawing on material that has come to light in the past thirty years, including newly discovered letters, documents, first draft notebooks, and the full transcript of the libel trial, Matthew Sturgis meticulously portrays the key events and influences that shaped Oscar Wilde's life, returning the man "to his times, and to the facts," giving us Wilde's own experience as he experienced it. Here, fully and richly portrayed, is Wilde's Irish childhood; a dreamy, aloof boy; a stellar classicist at boarding school; a born entertainer with a talent for comedy and a need for an audience; his years at Oxford, a brilliant undergraduate punctuated by his reckless disregard for authority . . . his arrival in London, in 1878, "already noticeable everywhere" . . . his ten-year marriage to Constance Lloyd, the father of two boys; Constance unwittingly welcoming young men into the household who became Oscar's lovers, and dying in exile at the age of thirty-nine . . . Wilde's development as a playwright. . . becoming the high priest of the aesthetic movement; his successes . . . his celebrity. . . and in later years, his irresistible pull toward another—double—life, in flagrant defiance and disregard of England's strict sodomy laws ("the blackmailer's charter"); the tragic story of his fall that sent him to prison for two years at hard labor, destroying his life and shattering his soul.
Author | : Richard Ellmann |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 737 |
Release | : 2013-09-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0804151121 |
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Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research and writing of this biography, resulting in a complex and richly detailed portrait of Oscar Wilde. Ellman captures the wit, creativity, and charm of the psychologically and sexually complicated writer, as well as the darker aspects of his personality and life. Covering everything from Wilde's rise as a young literary talent to his eventual imprisonment and death in exile with exquisite detail, Ellmann's fascinating account of Wilde's life and work is a resounding triumph.
Author | : Merlin Holland |
Publisher | : Harper Collins |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2004-10-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 000715805X |
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Oscar Wilde had one of literary history's most explosive love affairs with Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas. In 1895, Bosie's father, the Marquess of Queensberry, delivered a note to the Albemarle Club addressed to "Oscar Wilde posing as sodomite." With Bosie's encouragement, Wilde sued the Marquess for libel. He not only lost but he was tried twice for "gross indecency" and sent to prison with two years' hard labor. With this publication of the uncensored trial transcripts, readers can for the first time in more than a century hear Wilde at his most articulate and brilliant. The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde documents an alarmingly swift fall from grace; it is also a supremely moving testament to the right to live, work, and love as one's heart dictates.
Author | : Robert H. Sherard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 431 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Joseph Pearce |
Publisher | : Ignatius Press |
Total Pages | : 420 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1586170260 |
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Details the life of Oscar Wilde, including his work as an author, his fascination with Catholicism, and his time in prison for a homosexual affair.
Author | : Merlin Holland |
Publisher | : Fourth Estate (GB) |
Total Pages | : 400 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
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One of the most famous love affairs in literary history is that of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Bosie Douglas. As a direct consequence of this relationship, Wilde underwent three trials in 1895. In this text, Merlin Holland presents the original transcript of the Wilde versus Queensberry trial.
Author | : Michèle Mendelssohn |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 401 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0198802366 |
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Packed with new evidence, "Making Oscar Wilde" tells the untold story of a local Irish eccentric who became a global cultural icon. This must-read book dramatizes Oscar Wilde's remarkable rise in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Michele Mendelssohn interweaves biography and social history to reveal a life like no other.
Author | : Robert Harborough Sherard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 500 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Authors, Irish |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | : University of Illinois Press |
Total Pages | : 210 |
Release | : 2010-01-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0252034724 |
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Better known in 1882 as a cultural icon than a serious writer, Oscar Wilde was brought to North America for a major lecture tour on Aestheticism and the decorative arts. With characteristic aplomb, he adopted the role as the ambassador of Aestheticism, and he tried out a number of phrases, ideas, and strategies that ultimately made him famous as a novelist and playwright. This exceptional volume cites all ninety-one of Wilde's interviews and contains transcripts of forty-eight of them, and it also includes his lecture on his travels in America.
Author | : Robert Harborough Sherard |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : |
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