Oscar Wilde - Hardcover

Ellmann, Professor Richard

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0241123925 ISBN 13: 9780241123928

Publisher: Hamish Hamilton, 1987

Synopsis

Ro60122647. Oscar Wilde. 1987. In-8. Hardcover. Good Condition, Couv. Suitable, Cool Interior Back. 632 Pages. Illustrated With Many Black And White Photos Out Of Text. Stamp And Annotations On The Cover Page (Ex-Libris). Slightly Damaged Dust Jacket. With Dust Jacket. . . Dewey Classification: 420-English Language. Anglo-Saxon

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About the Author

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 1918. 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, 1959) 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 1987, in Oxford, soon after completing Oscar Wilde, to which he had devoted some two decades of study, research, and writing.

From the Inside Flap

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
• Publication date: 1987
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241123925
• ISBN 13: 9780241123928
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 648