Oscar Wilde

Author : Richard Ellmann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2013-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804151122

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Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann Pdf

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.

Author : Matthew Sturgis
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 865 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2021-10-12
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780525656364

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Oscar Wilde by Matthew Sturgis Pdf

The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life. "Simply the best modern biography of Wilde." —Evening Standard 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.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781627933650

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The Essential Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Collected her in one omnibus edition are Oscar Wilde's most important works including The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, and The Canterville Ghost. These works of poetry, fiction, drama, and prose encompass Wilde's entire career and they display his range of style and wit. Wilde is one of the most important writers in the history of the English language. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.

Author : Michèle Mendelssohn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780198802365

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Making Oscar Wilde by Michèle Mendelssohn Pdf

Packed with new evidence, "Making Oscar Wilde" tells the untold story of a local Irish eccentric who became a global cultural icon. This must-read book dramatizes Oscar Wilde's remarkable rise in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Michele Mendelssohn interweaves biography and social history to reveal a life like no other.

Author : Nicholas Frankel
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789144222

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The Invention of Oscar Wilde by Nicholas Frankel Pdf

“One should either wear a work of art, or be a work of art,” Oscar Wilde once declared. In The Invention of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel explores Wilde’s self-creation as a “work of art” and a carefully constructed cultural icon. Frankel takes readers on a journey through Wilde’s inventive, provocative life, from his Irish origins—and their public erasure—through his challenges to traditional concepts of masculinity and male sexuality, his marriage and his affairs with young men, including his great love Lord Alfred Douglas, to his criminal conviction and final years of exile in France. Along the way, Frankel takes a deep look at Wilde’s writings, paradoxical wit, and intellectual convictions.

Author : Dominic Janes
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2016-11-10
Category : History
ISBN : 9780226358642

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Oscar Wilde Prefigured by Dominic Janes Pdf

That there is a queeras opposed to merely homosexualhistory before Oscar Wilde will come as news to many in the sexuality studies field. Oscar Wilde Prefigured. It turns out that there is indeed a history of queerness, and that is originated in the early 18th century, coming to a head, as it were, by the end of the 19th. Dominic Janes draws on lots of new historical material, especially parodies and stereotypes in caricatures of sodomy and effeminacy. Front and center, then, are the 18th-century macaronies and mollies and men of feeling, the Regency dandies, and Victorian aesthetes. Visual display become a powerful historical tableau, generating a long history of queerness/homosexuality via caricatures of allegedly effeminate types. Images of effeminacy became a cultural field in which same-sex desire could be expressed. Wilde, then, was not the starting-point of public gay figures, but the endpoint. Wilde, in turn, is the pivot for connecting the Georgian figures to 20th-century stereotypes of camp (think Liberace), using images drawn from theater, fashion, and popular press to reveal new dimensions of identity politics and queer culture."

Author : Anne Varty
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781317892311

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A Preface to Oscar Wilde by Anne Varty Pdf

A Preface to Oscar Wilde provides a detailed study of the cultural, personal and political influences that shaped Wilde's writing. The study concentrates primarily on his fiction, critical dialogues and plays that were published between 1890 and 1895, and detailed accounts of Wilde's lesser known works such as his poetry, journalism and letters are also presented. The first section places his work in a variety of cultural contexts: Wilde's family life and his Irish inheritance are examined, the impact of his sexuality on his writing and reputation is considered, and a description is provided of how Wilde became a legendary figure in the arts. Major innovations and successes, such as The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest are related to avant garde movements of their day such as aestheticism, decadence, and symbolism. Reference sections provide supporting material such as a Wilde chronology, a glossary of terms and a bibliography for further study. Anne Varty sets out in this study to bring to life the work of Wilde, and to make his writing accessible to readers who are unfamiliar with his achievements. In so doing, she confronts the ethical drive of his work, and demonstrates the coherent evolution of his work from the aestheticism of the early poetry, through the sophisticated handling of theatre, to the dark self-scrutiny of autobiography. The comprehensive and accessible approach makes this a useful reference work to all who are studying Oscar Wilde, both at A Level and undergraduate level. The content will also appeal to the general reader who is seeking to gain a greater understanding and appreciation of Wilde's work.

Author : Nicholas Frankel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472110691

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Oscar Wilde's Decorated Books by Nicholas Frankel Pdf

With extensive reference to and exposition on Wilde's theoretical writings and letters, Frankel shows that, far from being marginal elements of the literary text, these decorative devices were central to Wilde's understanding of his own writings as well as to his "aesthetic" theory of language. Extensive illustrations support Frankel's arguments.".

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : UCR:31210012896948

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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde .... by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 1908
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BNC:1001958028

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780486111001

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Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Amusing, thought-provoking epigrams, aphorisms, and other jests from the plays, essays, and lively conversation of Oscar Wilde offer a feast of humorous and profound quips. Nearly 400 quotes.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781435173125

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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde Pdf

When handsome young Dorian Gray sees a painter’s stunning portrait of him, he is transfixed by its reflection of his own beauty. He is also troubled by the knowledge that the image in the painting will remain forever youthful and handsome while he himself will grow older and less desirable. He wishes aloud that the roles were reversed, saying that he would give his soul if only the painting would suffer the ravages of time and he were to remain forever young. From that point on, Dorian lives a life of hedonistic indulgence, knowing that only the painting will show his moral corruption.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307757685

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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” a product of his own prison experience; and four complete plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first dramatic success, An Ideal Husband, which pokes fun at conventional morality, The Importance of Being Earnest, his finest comedy, and Salomé, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written in French and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann. Every selection appears in its entirety–a marvelous collection of outstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who’s been aptly called “a lord of language” by Max Beerbohm.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 55 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2019-12-18
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : EAN:4064066051853

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The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Even though famous for his plays, Oscar Wilde wrote the incredible fairy tales and stories for children. In these stories Wilde really expressed his affection for aesthetic writing. The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories: "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Selfish Giant", "The Devoted Friend", and "The Remarkable Rocket".

Author : Alan Bird
Publisher : London : Vision Press
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UOM:39015001794380

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The Plays of Oscar Wilde by Alan Bird Pdf