02357cam a2200301 i 4500 771830810 TxAuBib 20211110120000.0 201209s2021||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2020054352 9780525656364 HRD 40.00 0525656367 HRD 40.00 DLC eng rda DLC TxAuBib rda Sturgis, Matthew, author. Oscar Wilde. Oscar. Oscar Wilde [Book] : a life / Matthew Sturgis. First American edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2021. pages cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. Drawing on material that has come to light in the past thirty years, including newly discovered letters, documents, first draft notebooks, and the full transcript of the libel trial, Matthew Sturgis meticulously portrays the key events and influences that shaped Oscar Wilde's life, returning the man to his times, and to the facts, giving us Wilde's own experience as he experienced it. ere, fully and richly portrayed, is Wilde's Irish childhood; a dreamy, aloof boy; a stellar classicist at boarding school; a born entertainer with a talent for comedy and a need for an audience; his years at Oxford, a brilliant undergraduate punctuated by his reckless disregard for authority . . . his arrival in London, in 1878, already noticeable everywhere . . . his ten-year marriage to Constance Lloyd, the father of two boys; Constance unwittingly welcoming young men into the household who became Oscar's lovers, and dying in exile at the age of thirty-nine . . . Wilde's development as a playwright. . . becoming the high priest of the aesthetic movement; his successes . . . his celebrity. . . and in later years, his irresistible pull toward another--double--life, in flagrant defiance and disregard of England's strict sodomy laws (the blackmailer's charter); the tragic story of his fall that sent him to prison for two years at hard labor, destroying his life and shattering his soul. 20211110. Wilde, Oscar 1854-1900. Authors, Irish 19th century Biography.