Oscar Wilde: Pulitzer Prize Winner

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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 4 set 2013 - 736 pagine
Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde 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.
 

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Cover
Toil of Growing
Wilde at Oxford
Rome and Greece
An Incomplete Aesthete
Setting Sail
Declaring His Genius
Indoctrinating America
A Late Victorian Love Affair
Sailing into the Wind
DISGRACE
I Am the Prosecutor in This Case
Doom Deferred
Pentonville Wandsworth and Reading
Escape from Reading
EXILE

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
Prisoner at Large
The Leftover Years
Epilogue
Notes
Select Bibliography
Appendix
Copyright

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Richard Ellmann
Anteprima limitata - 1969
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Richard Ellmann
Visualizzazione estratti - 1988
Oscar Wilde
Richard Ellmann
Visualizzazione estratti - 1988

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Informazioni sull'autore (2013)

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.
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.
His James Joyce (National Book Award, 1959) was preceded by Yeats: The Man and the Masks and The Identity of Yeats, and was followed by—among other greatly praised books—two volumes of Joyce letters, Eminent Domain, and Four Dubliners.
Ellmann died in May 1987, in Oxford, soon after completing Oscar Wilde, to which he had devoted some two decades of study, research, and writing.

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TitoloOscar Wilde: Pulitzer Prize Winner
AutoreRichard Ellmann
EditoreKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013
ISBN0804151121, 9780804151122
Lunghezza736 pagine
  
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