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Oscar Wilde Beginnings -- Toil of growing up -- Wilde at Oxford -- Rome and Greece -- An incomplete aesthete -- Advances -- Setting sail -- Declaring his genius -- Indoctrinating America -- Countering the renaissance -- Two kinds of stage -- Mr. and Mrs. Wilde -- Exaltations -- Disciple to master -- The age of Dorian -- Hellenizing Paris -- A good woman and others -- A late victorian love affair -- Sailing into the wind -- Disgrace -- 'I am the prosecutorin this case' -- Doom deferred -- Pentonville Wandsworth and Reading -- Escape from Reading -- Exile -- Prisoner at large -- The leftover years.

1988 · 007182 — New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House 1988 1988. 1st Edition 3rd Printing. Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 1st American edition 3rd printing ; xvii 680 pages 32 pages of plates : illustrations portraits ; 25 cm ; ISBN: 0394554841; 9780394554846 LCCN: 87-45354 ; LC: PR5823; Dewey: 828/.809; B ; OCLC: 16089096 ; brown cloth in photographic dustjacket ; Pulitzer Prize for Biography 1989.; Contents: Beginnings -- Toil of growing up -- Wilde at Oxford -- Rome and Greece -- An incomplete aesthete -- Advances -- Setting sail -- Declaring his genius -- Indoctrinating America -- Countering the renaissance -- Two kinds of stage -- Mr. and Mrs. Wilde -- Exaltations -- Disciple to master -- The age of Dorian -- Hellenizing Paris -- A good woman and others -- A late victorian love affair -- Sailing into the wind -- Disgrace -- 'I am the prosecutorin this case' -- Doom deferred -- Pentonville Wandsworth and Reading -- Escape from Reading -- Exile -- Prisoner at large -- The leftover years. ; "In this long-awaited biography Wilde the legendary Victorian--brilliant writer and conversationalist reckless flouter of social and sexual conventions--is brought to life. More astute and forbearing yet more fallible than legend has allowed Wilde is given here the dimensions of a modern hero. The author depicts Wilde's comet-like ascent on the Victorian scene and his equally dramatic sudden eclipse. He presents Wilde's Irish background the actresses to whom he paid court his unfortunate wife and lovers his clothes coiffures and the decor of his rooms. The saga of his 1882 American tour is recounted with a wealth of new details; also his later impact on the bastions of the French literary establishment. The London of the Nineties of Whistler and the Pre-Raphaelites Lillie Langtry and the Prince of Wales is evoked alongside Paris of the "belle époque" and the Greece Italy and North Africa of Wilde's travels. This critical account of Wilde's entire oeuvre shows him as the proponent of a radical new aesthetic who was perilously at odds with Victorian society. After his period of success and daring the fatal love affair with Lord Alfred Douglas is followed by exposure imprisonment a few wretched years abroad and death in exile. The tragic end of Wilde's life leaves the reader with a sense of compassion and grief for the protagonist." ; arguably the greatest biography of Wilde in existence ; remainder mark at bottom ; tiny crease on front endpaper ; else FINE/FINE <br/> <br/> New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1988 hardcover