538 Search Results for: "Oscar Wilde"

For Wilde, as for many people, reading could be as powerful and transformative an experience as falling in love. He devoured books, talked books, luxuriated in books and lavished books...

For nearly a century, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) has been seen primarily as a "British" writer - a description that ignores his Irish parentage and the experience of the first 20...

Oscar Wilde was one of Ireland's finest and most prolific 19th-century writers and a celebrated wit. He became a popular playwright in the early 1890s and is best remembered for...

THE DEFINITIVE STUDY OF OSCAR WILDE'S POSTHUMOUS REPUTATION, WRITTEN BY WILDE'S ONLY GRANDSON"A fascinating sweep through a hundred years from Wilde's death to now."-Stephen Fry"Gripping"-The Times "Wilde's afterlife remains almost...

Wilde's "trivial play for serious people" is a sparkling comedy of manners. This hilariously absurd satire pits sincerity against style, barbed witticisms against ostentatious elegance. Wilde's brilliantly constructed plot and...

The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years, and the most complete telling of his life and times to date. NOMINATED FOR THE WOLFSON HISTORY PRIZE 2019 'The...