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The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde - psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable, central to a alluring cultural world and someone whose life assumed an unbearably dramatic shape.
From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Reviewer: Anonymous (see other books I've reviewed) | February 9, 2005 |
| Brilliant biography of a brilliant man, read with great sensitivity by the brilliant David Case. |
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Reviewer: KRISTIN F SMITH (see other books I've reviewed) | February 1, 2004 |
| Oscar Wilde defined the 1890s, and he holds a place in our lives today. We still read his works, attend his plays, quote his bon mots. (I never seek to take the credit; Dorothy Parker remarked, We all assume that Oscar said it.) Richard Ellmanns Oscar Wilde provides a definitive biography: thoroughgoing, well written, sympathetic and insightful. He presents a Wilde of charisma and complexity, at ease with both the miners of Leadville, Colorado and the Prince of Wales; a disciple of both the romantic, moralizing Ruskin and the aesthetic admirer of corruption Pater; a man drawn toward both the Apollonian and the Dionysian, Hellenism and Catholicism. His desire to charm vied with his urge to outrage. (He was also, Ellmann tells us, the kindest of men. ) His ambiguous sexuality eventually resolved into homosexuality his need to take risks and, perhaps, his own naiveté, set the stage for one of literary historys great tragedies. But then, Wildes greatest art was always his own life. |
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Reviewer: Joseph Carroll (see other books I've reviewed) | April 10, 2002 |
| A deeply absorbing and moving book, with an extraordinary depth of scholarship, but scholarship in which each detail is penetrated with vivid, sympathetic understanding. This book forms the basis for the biographical film *Wilde*, a movie that ranks among the finest works of cinematic art and that in its quality passes a tacit judgment on the quality of the materials out of which it was composed. Be warned, though, this is not a work suitable for readers who are either sexually squeamish or intellectually dull. |
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Reviewer: Mary Hiatt | October 14, 2001 |
| Although this acclaimed biography was meticulously researched, I did not find the book entertaining. I trudged through four tapes before giving up. It was not a book I could recommend if your goal is light reading. Sorry! |
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