Oscar Wilde
Author | : E.H. Mikhail |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 1979-06-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349039233 |
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Author | : E.H. Mikhail |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 277 |
Release | : 1979-06-17 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1349039233 |
Author | : Richard Ellmann |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 737 |
Release | : 1988-11-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0394759842 |
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 | : Nicholas Frankel |
Publisher | : Reaktion Books |
Total Pages | : 287 |
Release | : 2021-06-10 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1789144221 |
“One should either wear a work of art, or be a work of art,” Oscar Wilde once declared. In The Invention of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel explores Wilde’s self-creation as a “work of art” and a carefully constructed cultural icon. Frankel takes readers on a journey through Wilde’s inventive, provocative life, from his Irish origins—and their public erasure—through his challenges to traditional concepts of masculinity and male sexuality, his marriage and his affairs with young men, including his great love Lord Alfred Douglas, to his criminal conviction and final years of exile in France. Along the way, Frankel takes a deep look at Wilde’s writings, paradoxical wit, and intellectual convictions.
Author | : Matthew Sturgis |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 865 |
Release | : 2021-10-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0525656367 |
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 | : Frank Harris |
Publisher | : ReadHowYouWant.com |
Total Pages | : 474 |
Release | : 2006-10 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 1425013767 |
Written by his close friend Harris, this biography of Wilde takes us to the deep recesses of his mind and soul. Though Harris is said to have given in to his imagination in recounting some events, in general the book shows his respect and regard for his comrade. He criticizes the harsh treatment meted out to this once-beloved wit stemming from general censure for his personal leanings. Absorbing!
Author | : Jonathan Fryer |
Publisher | : Haus Publishing |
Total Pages | : 172 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781904341116 |
The big Irishman with the golden tongue has posthumously proved that the world is not black and white. His wit and his paradoxes are understood as profound and moral; his best playes are reconised as gems of English comedy.
Author | : Frank Harris |
Publisher | : Wordsworth Editions |
Total Pages | : 404 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9781840225549 |
A biography of Oscar Wilde, this book offers a look at Wilde's rise and fall.
Author | : Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | : Alma Books |
Total Pages | : 79 |
Release | : 2018-08-28 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 0714549037 |
During a conversation about literary forgeries, Erskine tells his young guest that he has received - as a legacy from a friend, the Cambridge scholar Cyril Graham -what is purported to be an Elizabethan portrait. The painting depicts a beautiful young man in late-sixteenth-century costume, whom Graham believed to be Willie Hughes, a boy actor serving in Shakespeare's company. This revelation prompts Erskine's guest to delve deeper into the mystery surrounding the real identity of the dedicatee and the inspiration of Shakespeare's Sonnets, with unforeseen consequences. Far from being a dry exposition of a literary theory, The Portrait of Mr W.H. - which the author himself described as one of his "e;early masterpieces"e; - is an engaging and entertaining narrative exploring the intricate facets of trust and betrayal, historical truth and fiction, written with Wilde's trademark dialogical sharpness and stylistic perfection.