Oscar Wilde Biography: His "Wild" Life

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  • Oscar: A Biography

    • ASIN: 1788545974
    • ISBN: 1788545974
    • Manufacturer: Head of Zeus

    'The Book of the Year, perhaps of the decade, has to be Matthew Sturgis's Oscar' TLS, Books of the Year. NOMINATED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2019. A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR. 'Simply the best modern biography of Wilde ... A terrific achievement' Evening Standard. 'Page-turning ... Vivid and desperately moving. However much you think you kn... [Read More]

  • Oscar Wilde

    • ASIN: 0394759842
    • ISBN: 0394759842
    • Brand: Ellmann, Richard
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde: An Intimate Biography

    • ASIN: 0465044387
    • ISBN: 0465044387
    • Manufacturer: Basic Books

    Oscar Wilde said of himself, “I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my work.” Now, for the first time, Neil McKenna focuses on the tormented genius of Wilde's personal life, reproducing remarkable love letters and detailing Wilde's until-now unknown relationships with other men.McKenna has spent years researching Wilde's li... [Read More]

  • Whiskey in a Teacup: What Growing Up in the South Taught Me About Life, Love, and Baking Biscuits

    • ASIN: 1501166271
    • ISBN: 1501166271
    • Brand: Atria Books
    • Manufacturer: Atria Books

    Academy Award–winning actress, producer, and entrepreneur Reese Witherspoon invites you into her world, where she infuses the southern style, parties, and traditions she loves with contemporary flair and charm.Reese Witherspoon’s grandmother Dorothea always said that a combination of beauty and strength made southern women “whiskey in a teacu... [Read More]

  • Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream

    • ASIN: 0679785892
    • ISBN: 9780679785897
    • Brand: Vintage
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

  • The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde

    • ASIN: 0805059156
    • ISBN: 0805059156
    • Manufacturer: Henry Holt and Co.

    Here is Oscar Wilde revealed in his own words--including more than 200 previously unpublished letters--available to coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of his deathDeliciously wicked, astoundingly clever, and often outright shocking, Oscar Wilde put his art into his work and his genius into his life. In this collection, replete with newly d... [Read More]

  • Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions, Volume 1

    • ASIN: 1406811130
    • ISBN: 1406811130
    • Manufacturer: Echo Library

  • The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde

    • ASIN: 000715805X
    • ISBN: 000715805X
    • Manufacturer: Harper Perennial

    Oscar Wilde had one of literary history's most explosive love affairs with Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas. In 1895, Bosie's father, the Marquess of Queensberry, delivered a note to the Albemarle Club addressed to "Oscar Wilde posing as sodomite." With Bosie's encouragement, Wilde sued the Marquess for libel. He not only lost but he was tried twice for... [Read More]

  • The Quotable Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Wit and Wisdom (Miniature Editions)

    • ASIN: 0762449829
    • ISBN: 0762449829
    • Brand: Brand: Running Press Miniature Editions
    • Manufacturer: Running Press Miniature Editions

    "I must die as I lived, beyond my means." Arguably the most quoted man in history, and certainly in his day, this enormous miniature collection is filled with Oscar Wildes' most notorious and witty sayings. Organized into five neat sections useful for any situation, this book is perfect for either enjoying in small bites or devouring in one sitting... [Read More]

  • The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde

    • ASIN: 1586170260
    • ISBN: 1586170260
    • Manufacturer: Ignatius Pr

    Details the life of Oscar Wilde, including his work as an author, his fascination with Catholicism, and his time in prison for a homosexual affair.

  • Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)

    • UPC: 800759401468
    • ASIN: 0486401464
    • ISBN: 0486401464
    • Brand: imusti
    • Manufacturer: Dover Publications

    "I have the simplest tastes," remarked Oscar Wilde. "I am always satisfied with the best." In this superlative collection of quotations by the great Irish playwright and wit, readers will find the very best of Wilde's scintillating comments on art, human nature, morals, society, politics, history, and numerous other subjects. Epigrams, aphorisms, a... [Read More]

  • Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics)

    • ASIN: 0007144369
    • ISBN: 0007144369
    • Brand: Collins
    • Manufacturer: Collins

    The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde’s works, and is available in both hardback and this paperback edition. Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-v... [Read More]

  • Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde

    • ASIN: 0375702326
    • ISBN: 0375702326
    • Manufacturer: Vintage

    Winner of the Lambda Literary AwardIn this stunning work of theater, Moises Kaufman turns the trials of Oscar Wilde into a riveting human and intellectual drama. In April 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his youthful lover, who had publicly maligned him as a sodomite. In doing so, England's r... [Read More]

  • Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters

    • ASIN: 0786719079
    • ISBN: 0786719079
    • Brand: Brand: Carroll n Graf
    • Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf

    Of all 19th-century letter writers, Oscar Wilde is among the greatest. Revealing him at his sparkling, spontaneous, fluent best, these letters bear that most familiar of Wildean hallmarks — the lightest of touches for the most serious of subjects. He comments openly on his life and his work, from the early years of undergraduate friendship, throu... [Read More]

  • Son of Oscar Wilde

    • ASIN: 0786707011
    • ISBN: 0786707011
    • Brand: Brand: Carroll n Graf
    • Manufacturer: Carroll & Graf

    With its thirty-three previously unpublished Oscar Wilde letters and its poignant recollections of a man as spontaneous, humane, and sincere as he was prodigiously witty, Vyvyan Holland's memoir of his famous father has come to be regarded as a biographical classic in Wildean studies. Sharply observed, vivid, and dispassionate, it offers not only a... [Read More]

  • Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde

    • ASIN: 1605983810
    • ISBN: 9781605983813
    • Manufacturer: Pegasus Books

    The story of the woman at the center of the most famous scandal of the nineteenth century.In the spring of 1895 the life of Constance Wilde changed irrevocably. Up until the conviction of her husband, Oscar, for homosexual crimes, she had held a privileged position in society. Part of a gilded couple, she was a popular children's author, a fashio... [Read More]

  • Coffee with Oscar Wilde (Coffee with...Series)

    • ASIN: 184483512X
    • ISBN: 184483512X
    • Brand: Brand: Duncan Baird
    • Manufacturer: Duncan Baird

    Oscar Wilde’s own grandson, with the help of actor and author Simon Callow—who has performed Wilde’s work on stage—capture the essence of this wittiest of all playwrights. Set in Paris, where he fled after the scandalous trial that revealed his homosexuality, Wilde chats about language, his mother (an esteemed Irish folklorist), transforming ... [Read More]

  • Who Was That Man?: A Present for Mr. Oscar Wilde (The Masks Series)

    • ASIN: 1852421231
    • ISBN: 1852421231
    • Brand: Profile Books Ltd
    • Manufacturer: Serpent's Tail

  • Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters

    • ASIN: B0044DE974
    • Manufacturer: Fourth Estate

    Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost and his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best.Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, yet it was in his co... [Read More]

  • Oscar Wilde Complete Works - World's Best Ultimate Collection - 140+ Works All Plays, Poems, Poetry, Books, Stories, Fairy Tales, Rarities Plus Biographies & Bonuses [Illustrated]

    • ASIN: B004H8G7WG

    Exclusive Content:10 Unique Painted Illustrations created for this collectionHistorical Context Notes Incl. Explanation of the Victorian Era Oscar Wilde lived and wrote inComplete Works of Wilde Plus BonusesRead on to Learn MoreOscar Wilde Complete Works Ultimate CollectionThis is the world’s best Oscar Wilde collection, including the most comple... [Read More]

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