Oscar Wilde: A Life - Hardcover By Sturgis, Matthew

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525656367
ISBN-13
9780525656364
eBay Product ID (ePID)
21050077689

Product Key Features

Book Title
Oscar Wilde : Alife
Number of Pages
864 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Literary, Lgbt, Historical
Publication Year
2021
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Author
Matthew Sturgis
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.6 in
Item Weight
42.1 Oz
Item Length
9.5 in
Item Width
6.5 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2020-054352
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"Exhaustively researched, enlightening and lively . . . The story of the man in full, with flaws and fine qualities almost equally balanced . . . Sturgis does not pretend to be a critic--one of his gripes against Ellmann is that he approached his biography as a literary critic rather than a historian--and he does not essay any overarching judgments. Instead he delivers the judgments of Wilde's own day: 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol' turns out to have been by far the most popular of Wilde's works during his own lifetime, a fact I found surprising. The opinions of Wilde's more perceptive contemporaries can make us think."--Brooke Allen, Wall Street Journal "Give yourself a present: Pick up a copy of Oscar Wilde: A Life . . . Sturgis's biography is now the fullest one-volume account of the iconic fin-de-siècle writer, aesthete, wit and gay martyr. It draws on the most up-to-date manuscript discoveries and scholarship, but deliberately sticks closely to Wilde's life."--Michael Dirda, The Washington Post "[Sturgis's] clear-eyed understanding of Wilde is acute, his narrative assured. Drawing on new material, including the full transcript of the libel trial that set Wilde on the path to prison, he assembles an indelible portrait of a confounding and complex man."--Mary Ann Gwinn, Minneapolis Star Tribune
Dewey Decimal
828.809
Synopsis
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.
LC Classification Number
PR5823.S78 2021

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