Oscar Wilde - by Richard Ellmann (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>Hailed as a masterpiece, Ellmann's biography of Oscar Wilde has been acclaimed as a perfect marriage of biographer and subject. With precision and wit and sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story, it brings Wilde to life as never before. 32 pages of photos.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, <i>Oscar Wilde </i>is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research and writing of this biography, resulting in a complex and richly detailed portrait of Oscar Wilde. Ellman captures the wit, creativity, and charm of the psychologically and sexually complicated writer, as well as the darker aspects of his personality and life. Covering everything from Wilde's rise as a young literary talent to his eventual imprisonment and death in exile with exquisite detail, Ellmann's fascinating account of Wilde's life and work is a resounding triumph.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Richard Ellmann, during a long and distinguished career, won international recognition as a scholar, teacher of English literature, critic, and biographer. His magesterial life of James Joyce has been widely acclaimed as the greatest literary biography of the century.<br>Ellmann was born in Highland Park, Michigan, in 1918. He studied at Yale and at Trinity College in Dublin. He taught at Harvard, Yale, Northwestern, Emory, the University of Chicago, Indiana University, and Oxford, where he was Goldsmiths' Professor of English Literature and Fellow of New College.<br>His <i>James Joyce</i> (National Book Award, 1959) was preceded by <i>Yeats: The Man and the Masks </i>and <i>The Identity of Yeats</i>, and was followed by--among other greatly praised books--two volumes of Joyce letters, <i>Eminent Domain</i>, and <i>Four Dubliners</i>.<br>Ellmann died in May 1987, in Oxford, soon after completing <i>Oscar Wilde</i>, to which he had devoted some two decades of study, research, and writing.
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