Oscar Wilde: A Life
Matthew Sturgis
The fullest, most textural, most accurate—mosthuman—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 tonewly 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;...
"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;...
Рік:
2021
Видавництво:
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Мова:
english
ISBN 10:
0525656375
ISBN 13:
9782020054355
ISBN:
3ea97f8e-2cdb-4356-8326-1de64b863697
Файл:
MOBI , 49.03 MB
IPFS:
,
english, 2021