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Oscar Wilde : A Life by Matthew Sturgis is a self-help book available to read on EtoBox.

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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" . . . h

Who reads Oscar Wilde : A Life?

Author

Matthew Sturgis

Publisher

Alfred A. Knopf

Published

2021

Language

EN

ISBN

9780525656364

Category

self-help

Subjects

Memoir, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction

Rating

4.6 / 5 (520 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14