Oscar Wilde : a life / Matthew Sturgis.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sturgis, Matthew, author.

Standardized Title:

Oscar

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.

Wilde, Oscar.

Authors, Irish--19th century--Biography.

Authors, Irish.

Gay authors.

Gay authors--19th century--Biography.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 838 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Edition:

First American edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021.

Summary:

"The first full biography of Oscar Wilde in more than thirty years"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: pt. I THE STAR CHILD

1. A Small Unruly Boy

2. A Fair Scholar

3. Foundation Scholarship

pt. II THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE

1. Young Oxford

2. Heart's Yearnings

3. Hellas!

4. Specially Commended

pt. III THE HAPPY PRINCE

1. A Dream of Fair Women

2. The Jester and the Joke

3. Up to Snuff

4. An English Poet

pt. IV THE REMARKABLE ROCKET

1. The Best Place

2. Go Ahead

3. This Wide Great World

4. Bully Boy

5. Different Aspects

6. The Dream of the Poet

pt. V THE DEVOTED FRIEND

1. Over the Seine

2. First Drama

3. Man of the Day

4. New Relations

5. In Black and White

6. L'Amour de l'Impossible

7. Woman's World

8. A Study in Green

pt. VI THE YOUNG KING

1. A Man in Hew

2. A Bad Case

3. Suggestive Things

4. The Best Society

5. The Dance of the Seven Veils

6. Charming Ball

7. White and Gold

pt. VII THE SELFISH GIANT

1. The Eternal Quest for Beauty

2. Feasting with Panthers

3. Brief Summer Months

4. Enemies of Romance

5. Scarlet Marquess

6. A Capacity for Being Amused

pt. VIII THE HOUSE OF JUDGMENT

1. The Last First Nights

2. Hideous Words

3. The Prosecutor

4. Regina Versus Wilde

5. The Torrent of Prejudice

pt. IX IN CARCEREET VINCULIS

1. The Head of Medusa

2. The System

3. From the Depths

pt. X THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL

1. Asylum

2. Artistic Work

3. Outcast Men

4. Bitter Experience

pt. XI THE TEACHER OF WISDOM

1. The Parisian Temple of Pleasure

2. Going South

3. All Over.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

"This is a Borzoi Book" -- From title page verso.

"Originally published in hardcover, in a different form, in Great Britain by Apollo Books, an imprint of Head of Zeus Ltd., London, in 2018." -- From title page verso.

Other Format:

Online version: Sturgis, Matthew. Oscar Wilde.

ISBN:

9780525656364

0525656367

OCLC:

1225066713