{"product_id":"oscar-wilde-paperback","title":"Oscar Wilde - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRichard Ellmann\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWinner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, \u003ci\u003eOscar Wilde \u003c\/i\u003eis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eRichard 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.\u003cbr\u003eEllmann 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.\u003cbr\u003eHis \u003ci\u003eJames Joyce\u003c\/i\u003e (National Book Award, 1959) was preceded by \u003ci\u003eYeats: The Man and the Masks \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Identity of Yeats\u003c\/i\u003e, and was followed by--among other greatly praised books--two volumes of Joyce letters, \u003ci\u003eEminent Domain\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFour Dubliners\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003eEllmann died in May 1987, in Oxford, soon after completing \u003ci\u003eOscar Wilde\u003c\/i\u003e, to which he had devoted some two decades of study, research, and writing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 736\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.5 x 8.02 x 5.22 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 05, 1988\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Book Critics Circle Award (1988)\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eAward:\u003c\/strong\u003e Pulitzer Prize (1989)\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51755739971872,"sku":"9780394759845","price":26.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/8ea1a0f8c0989c31d457acf3b334bde1.webp?v=1780067413","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/oscar-wilde-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}