![]() 'I started as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde.' Indeed nothing about Oscar was 'plain." And in this most pyrotechnic, enchanting, and extravagantly outrageous of nineteenth-century literary men, Richard Ellmann, one of the great biographers of our time, has found his most compelling protagonist.Įllmann's Oscar Wilde has been almost twenty years in work, and it will stand, like his universally admired James Joyce, as the definitive life. 'How ridiculous of you to suppose that anyone, least of all my dear mother, would christen me "plain Oscar,"' he once replied to someone who so supposed. With the exception of a tiny mark on the typeface page in the back, the pages are clean and unmarked and the binding is tight and straight. Inside, the book shows no evidence of use. The dust jacket has some shelf wear present. ![]() This copy is the third printing of March 1988. ![]() Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann is a 680-page hardcover, a Borzoi Book, published by Alfred A. ![]()
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