N° 3391
In this major biography Oscar Wilde, the legendary Victorian - brilliant writer and conversationalist, setter of fashions and reckless flouter of social and sexual conventions - is brought overwhelmingly to life. More astute, more generous and forbearing, yet more fallible and perhaps more doom-driven than the legend has allowed, Wilde is given in Richard Elliman's magnificent account the dimensions of a modern hero. He emerges here as startlingly contemporary, able even now to challenge our common assumptions with his wit and subversive insights; Wilde, his biographer maintains, was 'one of us'.
Based on fresh material from many hitherto-untapped sources, Oscar Wilde is illuminated by its author's notable insights and by his own charitable wit.
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