"I have put only my talent into my works.
Ellmann, who also wrote the definitive Joyce bio, completed this shortly before he died and it's a monument both to him and to Wilde. Richard Ellmann's heavy, magisterial biography gives you one of the most fascinating lives of any author, from his relatively happy Irish childhood, to his cultivation of the aesthetic/dandy-ish life, to his stage triumphs, to his disastrous involvement with Alfred Douglas, whose father was instrumental in ruining Wilde's reputation. Celebrated as much for his wit and style as for his writing, Wilde enjoyed great success and crushing defeat: excoriated for his homosexuality, dying poor and in exile in 1900 at the age of 46. Wilde lived life as if it were art and in doing so created an indelible, influential persona that not only inspired authors, but also musicians (Morrissey) and filmmakers (Todd Haynes). « previous 1 2 3 4 next » sort by « previous 1 2 3 4 next » Note: these are all the books on Goodreads for this author. shelved 34,250 times Showing 30 distinct works.Even if those aren't true, they feel true. Books by Richard Ellmann (Author of Oscar Wilde) Books by Richard Ellmann Richard Ellmann Average rating 4.10 He has been called the first celebrity author, the first dandy, and the first public homosexual. Richard Ellmann Born in Highland Park, Michigan, The United States MaDied Genre Biographies & Memoirs, Nonfiction edit data Richard David Ellmann was a prominent American literary critic and biographer of the Irish writers James Joyce, Oscar Wilde, and William Butler Yeats. Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and. "It is difficult for me to laugh at life, as I used to."-O.W.Įven if you know nothing about (or don't care about) literature, you know who Oscar Wilde is.
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