Oscar Wilde’s life reads almost like a perfectly formed work of art — one in which each early success bristles with portents of tragedy to come. Long before Wilde’s infamous libel case, his father ...

In Nancy Mitford’s “The Pursuit of Love,” the young narrator, Fanny—this is circa World War I—asks her Aunt Sadie what mysterious crime Oscar Wilde had committed. Sadie, greatly flustered, admits that ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

'From Decadence to Despair' maps out his meteoric rise to fame and dramatic fall from grace at Trinity Library’s Long Room The opening of the first major Irish exhibition on Oscar Wilde was marked by ...

David McDermott and Peter McGough have built a shrine to Wilde in the basement of a church in Greenwich Village. So why visit this church basement when you can read Wilde’s biography online? Let’s ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By David Hare OSCAR WILDE A Life By Matthew Sturgis In her new collection of stories, “The Master of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Oscar Wilde, the subject of an illuminating and tragic new biography by Matthew Sturgis. (Napoleon Sarony / Universal History ...