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In this biography, Wilde the legendary Victorian--brilliant writer and conversationalist, reckless flouter of social and sexual conventions--is brought to life. More astute and forbearing, yet more fallible than legend has allowed, Wilde is given here the dimensions of a modern hero. The author depi...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ellmann, Richard, 1918-1987 (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Vintage Books, 1988.
Edition:First Vintage books edition, November, 1988.
Subjects:
Wilde, Oscar, > 1854-1900.
Authors, Irish > 19th century > Biography.
Écrivains irlandais > 19e siècle > Biographies.
Authors, Irish.
Wilde, Oscar.
1800-1899
collective biographies.
Biographies.
Online Access:Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings
  • Toil of growing up
  • Wilde at Oxford
  • Rome and Greece
  • An incomplete aesthete
  • Advances
  • Setting sail
  • Declaring his genius
  • Indoctrinating America
  • Countering the renaissance
  • Two kinds of stage
  • Mr. and Mrs. Wilde
  • Exaltations
  • Disciple to master
  • The age of Dorian
  • Hellenizing Paris
  • A good woman, and others
  • A late victorian love affair
  • Sailing into the wind
  • Disgrace
  • 'I am the prosecutor in this case'
  • Doom deferred
  • Pentonville, Wandsworth, and Reading
  • Escape from Reading
  • Exile
  • Prisoner at large
  • The leftover years.