Oscar Wilde: A Long and Lovely Suicide

by Melissa Knox

Book Overview

"I was a problem for which there was no solution."--Oscar Wilde, 1897 During his lifetime Oscar Wilde was praised as a brilliant playwright, novelist, and conversationalist and stigmatized as a... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300059051
• ISBN13: 9780300059052
• Release Date: September 1994
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 185 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.5"

Customer Reviews

Original and Provocative

I'm a graduate student studying Wilde, and really appreciated this thoughtful and challenging book. So much of the scholarship on the most interesting issues--gender, sexuality, identity--is original only in its jargonistic neologisms. This book is different: straightforward, solidly researched, beautifully written, and sympathetic to Wilde.

Best book available on Wilde

This is simply the best book on Oscar Wilde that I've ever read. A must read for Wilde scholars and an enjoyable read for Wilde enthusiasts.

Excellent, readable, and scholarly

This psychoanalytic biography of Wilde explores more aspects of his life than many of the better known biographies, even Ellmann's. Well-researched, well-written, fun to read. Wilde's isolation, complicated relationship to his young sister who died and his parents, and terror of syphilis, are all explored in this interesting and enjoyable book