Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann 1988

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, 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.

The late Ellmann worked 20 years on this magisterial biography. He tells the fascinating story of Oscar Wildewit and aesthete, poet and playwright, scapegrace and scapegoat, more fully and irresistibly than it has ever been told. Ellmann captures Wilde's charm and high spirits and also the darker side of his personality, which led to increasingly public homosexual affairs at a time when homosexuality was legally a crime. Ellmann skillfully marshals his material (some of it new) and writes brilliantly but unobtrusively. (Library Journal). 

Title: Oscar Wilde 
Author: Richard Ellmann 
Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf New York 
Publication Date: 1988 
Binding: Hardcover, clothbound. typography and binding design by Dorothy Schmiderer  
Language: English 
Illustrated: Yes, black and white photographs 
Condition: Please see the images  
Pages: 680 
ISBN 0-394-55484-1 
Measures approximately: 9 1/2  x 6 1/2 x 1 1/2 inches ( 24 x 16.5 x 4.5 cm.) 

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