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Oscar Wilde: A Life,New
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The fullest, most textural, most accuratemost humanaccount of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling lifebased on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the twoyear prison term that shattered his soul and his life.'Simply the best modern biography of Wilde.' Evening StandardDrawing on material that has come to light in the past thirty years, including newly discovered letters, documents, first draft notebooks, and the full transcript of the libel trial, Matthew Sturgis meticulously portrays the key events and influences that shaped Oscar Wilde's life, returning the man 'to his times, and to the facts,' giving us Wilde's own experience as he experienced it.Here, fully and richly portrayed, is Wilde's Irish childhood; a dreamy, aloof boy; a stellar classicist at boarding school; a born entertainer with a talent for comedy and a need for an audience; his years at Oxford, a brilliant undergraduate punctuated by his reckless disregard for authority . . . his arrival in London, in 1878, 'already noticeable everywhere' . . . his tenyear marriage to Constance Lloyd, the father of two boys; Constance unwittingly welcoming young men into the household who became Oscar's lovers, and dying in exile at the age of thirtynine . . . Wilde's development as a playwright. . . becoming the high priest of the aesthetic movement; his successes . . . his celebrity. . . and in later years, his irresistible pull toward anotherdoublelife, in flagrant defiance and disregard of England's strict sodomy laws ('the blackmailer's charter'); the tragic story of his fall that sent him to prison for two years at hard labor, destroying his life and shattering his soul.
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