Oscar Wilde
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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- Alfred A. Knopf
- Year
- 1988
- ISBN-13
- 9780140096613
- Genre
- Biography & Memoir
- Topics
- Oscar Wilde's lifeVictorian literary cultureSexuality and scandal
Awards
- Pulitzer Prize for Biography or AutobiographyWonMajor(1989)
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