The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
by:
Neil McKenna (author)
In The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, Neil McKenna provides stunning new insight into the tumultuous sexual and psychological worlds of this brilliant and tormented figure. McKenna charts Wilde’s astonishing odyssey through London’s sexual underworld, and provides explosive new evidence of the...
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In The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde, Neil McKenna provides stunning new insight into the tumultuous sexual and psychological worlds of this brilliant and tormented figure. McKenna charts Wilde’s astonishing odyssey through London’s sexual underworld, and provides explosive new evidence of the political machinations behind Wilde’s trials for sodomy. Dazzlingly written and meticulously researched, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde offers a vividly original portrait of a troubled genius who chose to martyr himself for the cause of love between men.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780465044399 (0465044395)
Publish date: November 7th 2006
Publisher: Basic Books
Pages no: 576
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Biography,
History,
Cultural,
Criticism,
Literary Criticism,
Ireland,
Biography Memoir,
Sexuality,
Glbt,
Queer
I love Oscar Wilde. His plays, his writings, his epigrams...the self proclaimed Lord of Language's wit dazzles and delights more than a century after his death. So I expected to enjoy this book. I expected to be amused and entertained and maybe even enthralled by this book, but I didn't expect it to...
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