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Oscar Wilde Paperback – November 5, 1988

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    November 5, 1988
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    5.19 x 1.46 x 7.96 inches
  6. ISBN-10
    0394759842
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Richard Ellmann capped an illustrious career in biography (his James Joyce is considered one of the masterpieces of the 20th century) with this life of Oscar Wilde, which won both the National Book Critics Circle Award and Pulitzer Prize on its original publication in 1988. Ellmann's account of Wilde's extravagantly operatic life as poet, playwright, aesthete, and martyr to sexual morality is notable not only for the full portrait it gives of Wilde, but also for Ellmann's assessment of his subject's literary greatness; both aims are served by a plethora of quotations from Wilde's own work and correspondence. Wilde straddled the line between the Victorian age and the modern world as he did everything in life ... with impeccable style.

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The biography will further distinguish Ellman's illustrious career . . . it should give impetus to a view . . . that Wilde was, after all, a writer of enormous significance and originality. -- New York Times Book Review, George Levine

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Vintage (November 5, 1988)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 736 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0394759842
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0394759845
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.51 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.19 x 1.46 x 7.96 inches
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5.0 out of 5 stars I loved this book. Poor Oscar, such a good heart and so abused.
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