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Description edit
The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde — psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable, central to a alluring cultural world and someone whose life assumed an unbearably dramatic shape.
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Characters/People edit
- Oscar Wilde: Add a description of this character.
- Constance Lloyd Wilde
- Lady Jane Wilde
- Lillie Langtry
- Alfred Douglas
- Robert Ross
- Sir William Wilde
- André Gide
- Frank Harris
- Alfred Taylor
- John Ruskin
- Rev. John Pentland Mahaffy
- John Sholto Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry
- Walter Pater
- Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas
- Robert Sherard
- More Adey
- Stéphane Mallarmé
- Edward Carson, Baron Carson
- Hunter Blair
- Henry James
- Max Beerbohm
- Sarah Bernhardt
- George Alexander
- Aubrey Beardsley
- Charles Ricketts
- Sir Edward Clarke
- Frank Miles
Setting & Locations edit
- London
- Paris
- England
- United States
- Oxford
- Rome
- Dublin
- New York
- Naples
- Ireland
- Dieppe
- France
- Greece
- Trinity College
- Wandsworth
- Cambridge
- Philadelphia
- Tite Street
- Athens
- Europe
- Florence
- Boston
- Italy
- Egypt
- Venice
- Piccadilly
- Rouen
- Australia
- Algiers
- San Francisco
- Russia
- Chicago
- Washington
- Pentonville
First Sentence edit
Oscar Wilde first emerges for us into articulate being in 1868, when he was thirteen, in a letter he wrote to his mother from school.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Richard Ellmann (Author)
Awards edit
- Pulitzer Prize (1989: Biography)
- National Book Critics Circle Award (1988: Biography/Autobiography, Winner)
Classification edit
- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 828.809
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