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Item Information   Copy / Holding Information     Booklist Review     Publisher Weekly Review     Table of Contents     More Content       More by this author     Sturgis, Matthew.     Subjects     Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.     Authors, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography.     Gay authors -- 19th century -- Biography.     Poets, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography.     Gay men -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Sturgis, Matthew.       by title:      Oscar Wilde : a life...       by call number:      921 W672s     Search the Web     Sturgis, Matthew.     Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.     Authors, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography.     Gay authors -- 19th century -- Biography.     Poets, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography.     Gay men -- Great Britain -- Biography.     Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century.       MARC Display

Oscar Wilde : a life / Matthew Sturgis. by Sturgis, Matthew. Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. Call #: 921 W672s Subjects Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.   Authors, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography.   Gay authors -- 19th century -- Biography.   Poets, Irish -- 19th century -- Biography.   Gay men -- Great Britain -- Biography.   Great Britain -- Social life and customs -- 19th century. ISBN:  9780525656364 (hc) Edition:  1st American ed. Description:  xv, 838 p. : ill., portraits ; 25 cm. Notes:  "Originally published in hardcover, in a different form, in Great Britain by Apollo Books, an imprint of Head of Zeus Ltd., London, in 2018." -- T.p. verso. "This is a Borzoi Book" -- From title page verso. Bibliography:  Includes bibliographical references and index. Summary:  "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; a dreamy, aloof boy; a stellar classicist at boarding school; a born entertainer with a talent for comedy and a need for an audience; his years at Oxford, a brilliant undergraduate punctuated by his reckless disregard for authority...his arrival in London, in 1878, already noticeable everywhere...his ten-year marriage to Constance Lloyd, the father of two boys; Constance unwittingly welcoming young men into the household who became Oscar's lovers, and dying in exile at the age of thirty-nine...Wilde's development as a playwright...becoming the high priest of the aesthetic movement; his successes...his celebrity...and in later years, his irresistible pull toward another -- double -- life, in flagrant defiance and disregard of England's strict sodomy laws (the blackmailer's charter); the tragic story of his fall that sent him to prison for two years at hard labor, destroying his life and shattering his soul."--Publisher. Genre:  Biographies. Holds:  0   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Item type Status   Bedford Public Library Adult Biography 921 W672s Adult books Not Available Add Copy to MyList Central Library Adult Biography 921 W672s Core Collection - Adult Checked in Add Copy to MyList

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