Oscar Wilde: A Biography (Classic Biography)

by H. Montgomery Hyde

Book Overview

Aesthete, dandy, poet, dramatist and philosopher Oscar Wilde's wit and charm dazzled society in London, America and Paris in the late 1880s. But the year 1895 brought Wilde literary triumph -with two... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0141390867
• ISBN13: 9780141390864
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd.
• Length: 448 Pages
• Weight: 1.08 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 1.2" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Good times...

this is a great bio on oscar wilde not only did the author talk with people who knew oscar wilde it was good not boring or slow at all

excellent

Hyde lived in Wilde's college room in the 30's and has items,letters and additional research that are now timeless and priceless in the growing reexamination ot the life, times and ideas of Oscar Wilde . If available , this is a must for any research or documentary on Wilde's young years and the travails of imprisonment."Sorrow knows no change and sometimes it deepens with the bitterness of despair "( Lady Wilde) p.7. Read it.