Oscar Wilde, the subject of an illuminating and tragic new biography by Matthew Sturgis. (Napoleon Sarony / Universal History Archive / Getty Images) Oscar Wilde’s life reads almost like a perfectly ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. It's 30 years since Richard Ellmann, the biographer of Joyce and Yeats, wrote his monumental life of Oscar Wilde, which was such a warm ...

A forthcoming biography of Oscar Wilde reveals for the first time the likely identity of the famous author’s mystery San Francisco lover. In his new book “Oscar: A Life“, biographer Matthew Sturgis ...

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he ...

A review of "The Pocket Biography Of Oscar Wilde", edited By Tony Potter. What is tragic is that Oscar Wilde seemed not to believe in evil, or that it could ever lay a hand on him, at least at first.

Oscar Wilde, though married to a woman, preferred sex with men; he was convicted of "gross indecency" and sentenced to two years of hard labor in 1895 in what has become a landmark case in queer ...

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John Sutherland is the Lord Northcliffe professor of modern English literature at University College London. He is the author of several books, including "The Life of Walter Scott" and a forthcoming ...

The grandson of Oscar Wilde will Thursday collect a British Library pass symbolically reinstated to the celebrated Irish ...