Bibliograph

Oscar wilde, A life., Matthew Sturgis

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Oscar wilde, A life., Matthew Sturgis

Language

eng

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no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Oscar wilde

Medium

electronic resource

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Responsibility statement

Matthew Sturgis

Sub title

A life.

Summary

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;..

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