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ELLMANN, Richard Oscar Wilde ISBN 13: 9785550302118

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Oscar Wilde is of the most celebrated literary characters. Yet despite the popularity of his plays, Wilde was vilified, and imprisoned, and died a broken man in exile. His life, now the subject of a film, is recounted in this biography.

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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.
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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.

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  • PublisherHamish Hamilton.
  • Publication date1988
  • ISBN 10 555030211X
  • ISBN 13 9785550302118
  • BindingHardcover
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