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Oscar Wilde

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This critical account of Wilde's entire oeuvre shows him as the proponent of a radical aesthetic perilously at odds with Victorian society. Based on fresh material from many previously untapped sources, Ellmann depicts Wilde's dramatic ascent and sudden decline in vivid detail.

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Oscar Wilde, Richard Ellmann

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1997
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English
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Penguin Books
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1997
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Oscar Wilde
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This critical account of Wilde's entire oeuvre shows him as the proponent of a radical aesthetic perilously at odds with Victorian society. Based on fresh material from many previously untapped sources, Ellmann depicts Wilde's dramatic ascent and sudden decline in vivid detail.