Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann
Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research and writing of this biography, resulting in a complex and richly detailed portrait of Oscar Wilde. Ellman captures the wit, creativity, and charm of the psychologically and sexually complicated writer, as well as the darker aspects of his personality and life. Covering everything from Wilde's rise as a young literary talent to his eventual imprisonment and death in exile with exquisite detail, Ellmann's fascinating account of Wilde's life and work is a resounding triumph.Richard Ellmann earned international acclaim as a scholar, English literature instructor, critic, and biographer over the course of a long and illustrious career. Ellmann was born in Highland Park, Michigan, in 1918. His magesterial life of James Joyce has been largely recognized as the best literary biography of the century. He attended Yale University and Trinity College in Dublin. He was a professor of English literature at Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, Emory, the University of Chicago, Indiana University, and Oxford, where he was Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College. His James Joyce (National Book Prize, 1959) was preceded by Yeats: The Man and the Masks and The Identity of Yeats, and was followed by--among other highly appreciated books--two volumes of Joyce letters, Eminent Persons, and James Joyce: The
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| ISBN 13 | 9780394759845 |
| ISBN 10 | 0394759842 |
| Title | Oscar Wilde |
| Author | Richard Ellmann |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 1988-11-05 |
| Number of pages | 736 |
| Prizes | Winner of National Book Critics Circle Awards 1988, Winner of Pulitzer Prize 1989 |
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