Oscar Wilde

Name: Oscar Wilde
Author: Richard Ellmann

by Richard Ellmann

Authoritative life of Irish playwright and wit Oscar Wilde, documenting his wit, trials, and legacy

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Richard Ellmann

American literary biographer whose lives of Yeats, Joyce, and Wilde set the standard for literary biography. James Joyce is widely regarded as the greatest literary biography in English. He combined encyclopedic research with critical insight and narrative grace.

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