Ellmann, Richard <br/><br/>
Oscar Wilde 
/ Richard Ellmann 
 - New York  : Knopf  , 1988  , c1987. 
 - 680 p  ; 27 cm. 
<br/><br/> The late Ellmann worked 20 years on this magisterial biography. He tells the fascinating story of Oscar Wildewit and aesthete, poet and playwright, scapegrace and scapegoat more fully and irresistibly than it has ever been told before. Ellmann captures Wilde's charm and high spirits and also the darker side of his personality, which led to increasingly public homosexual affairs at a time when homosexuality was legally a crime. Ellmann skillfully marshals his material (some of it new), and he writes brilliantly but unobtrusively. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780394554846 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Personal Names: </label><br/>Wilde, Oscar , 1854-1900 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Authors, Irish---19th century----Biography
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>92 WIL