Oscar Wilde: Pulitzer Prize Winner
Richard Ellmann, during a long and distinguished career, won international recognition as a scholar, teacher of English literature, critic, and biographer. His magesterial life of James Joyce has been widely acclaimed as the greatest literary biography of the century.
Ellmann was born in Highland Park, Michigan, in He studied at Yale and at Trinity College in Dublin. He taught 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 Award, ) was preceded by Yeats: The Man and the Masks and The Identity of Yeats, and was followed by—among other greatly praised books—two volumes of Joyce letters, Eminent Domain, and Four Dubliners.
Ellmann died in May , in Oxford, soon after completing Oscar Wilde, to which he had devoted some two decades of study, research, and writing.
Oscar Wilde: A Biography
And because I am not Oscar Wilde, because someone’s body is thinning in the dirt, I can still say this. Say, through this blue sheen, that he (Did you know they found shit smeared on the sheets of his bed? That boys young enough to climb stairs climbed the stairs of his suite?) that Oscar Wilde bled from the eyes and mouth right before—
And I wonder (justly) if something might have exploded there, in his head, maybe something in the ear, something eating straight through. Maybe it was a little itch, a syphilis, that scratched the eyes’ interior. A disease that lived inside the tongue and the skull couldn’t hold it, couldn’t (either he or the wallpaper had to go).
Oscar, if you place a glass of water on the bed, someone is bound to knock it over. The boy will spill i
Introduction
What is Oscar Wilde: A Biography about? This compelling biography reveals the life of Oscar Wilde, the brilliant Victorian writer. Richard Ellmann brings Wilder’s complexities and contradictions into focus. He explores Wilde&#;s rise to fame and his tragic downfall through meticulous research.
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Title: Oscar Wilde: A Biography
Author: Richard Ellmann
Published: January 1,
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Synopsis of Oscar Wilde: A Biography
Introduction to Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann&#;s biography, &#;Oscar Wilde,&#; resurrects the complex life of the celebrated writer. Wilde was more than a sharp-tongued playwright; he redefined societal norms with his wit and flamboyance. Collected from untapped sources, Ellmann presents Wilde&#;s rise and fall vividly. The biography illustrates how Wilde’s Irish heritage shaped his character and experiences. He navigated a world filled with glamorous actors, notorious figures, and infamous lovers. Wilde&#;s relationship with Lady Constance Lloyd and his many romantic encounters is examined closely. The exploration paints Wilde as both a loving husband and a reckless lover. While the exterior reflected chaOscar Wilde: A Biography - Hardcover
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In this long-awaited bioraphy, Wilde the legendary Victorian - brilliant writer and conversationalist, reckless flouter of social and sexual conventions - is brought to life. More astute and forbearing, yet more fallible than legend has allowed, Wilde is given here the dimensions of a modern hero. Based on fresh material from many hitherto-untapped sources, Ellmann depicts Wilde's comet-like ascent on the Victorian scene and his equally dramatic sudden eclipse. His Irish background, the actresses to whom he paid court, his unfortunate wife and lovers, his clothes, coiffures, and the decor of his rooms - all are presented here in vivid detail. The saga of his American tour is recounted with a wealth of new details; also his later impact on the bastions of the French literary establishment. The London of the Nineties, of Whistler and the Pre-Raphaelites, Lillie Langtry and the Prince of Wales, is evoked alongside Paris of the "belle epoque" and the Greece, Italy and North Africa of Wilde'stravels. Ellmann's definitive critical account of Wilde's entire oeuvre shows him as the proponent of a radical new aesthet
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