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Oscar Wilde: A Life [Hardcover ]

Sturgis, Matthew

Published by Knopf (2021)

ISBN 10: 0525656367 ISBN 13: 9780525656364

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Oscar Wilde: A Life (Hardcover)

Matthew Sturgis

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York (2021)

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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: new. Hardcover. 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. Simply the best modern biography of Wilde.-- Evening Standard The best book of the year; perhaps the decade.--A. N. Wilson, Times Literary Supplement 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 39 . . . 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. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Seller Inventory # 9780525656364

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