Oscar Wilde was an Irish writer who created works like The Importance of Being Earnest, The Ideal Husband, De Profundis, and other works. His life was filled with controversy. Read more about Wilde's life.
1. Oscar Wilde
by Richard Ellmann. Knopf Publishing Group. From the publisher: "The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde - psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable, central to a alluring cultural world and someone whose life assumed an unbearably dramatic shape."
2. Unmasking of Oscar Wilde
by Joseph Pearce. HarperCollins. From the publisher: "In his new book, Joseph Pearce asserts that the great poet, satirist, and playwright Oscar Wilde is as misunderstood today as he was in his own time. Vilified by his fellow Victorians for his sexuality and dandyism, these days he is hailed as a sexual liberator."3. Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius
by Barbara Belford. Random House. From the publisher: "In this elegant and affectionate biography of one of the most controversial personalities of the nineteenth century, Barbara Belford breaks new ground in the evocation of Oscar Wilde's personal life and in our understanding of the choices he made for his art."4. Oscar Wilde: Myths, Miracles and Imitations
by John Stokes. Cambridge University Press. From the publisher: "In a sequence of detailed and imaginative chapters on Wilde and his times, John Stokes shows how in the 1880s and 1890s Wilde played a vital part in the development of modern culture, inspiring others to carry his ideas on into the twentieth century. Stokes offers studies of Wilde's place in the Romantic tradition..."5. Oscar Wilde : A Long and Lovely Suicide
by Melissa Knox. Yale University Press. From the publisher: "In the first full-length psychoanalytic biography of Wilde, Melissa Knox explores the link between little-known childhood events and figures in his life and his psychological development to explain both Wilde's creativity and his self-destructive heroism."6. The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Deviance, Morality, and Late-Victorian
by Michael S. Foldy. Yale University Press. From the publisher: "Following Oscar Wilde's 1895 trials for committing "acts of gross indecency with men," he lost his freedom, his family, his reputation, his will to create, and even his will to live. This book sets out to examine what it was about late-Victorian society that allowed this to happen, indeed needed it to happen..."7. Oscar Wilde
by Frank Harris, and George Bernard Shaw. Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc. From the publisher: "One of the great editors of the late 19th century, and author of the scandalous My Life and Loves, Frank Harris was one of the few friends who remained loyal to Oscar Wilde after his conviction in 1895 and release from jail two years later."8. Oscar Wilde in the 1990's: Critic as Creator
by Melissa Knox. Camden House. From the publisher: "In 1891, Oscar Wilde defined 'the highest criticism' as 'the record of one's own soul, and insisted that only by 'intensifying his own personality' could the critic interpret the personality and work of others. This book explores what Wilde meant by that statement..."9. Oscar Wilde: An Exquisite Life
by S. Calloway, and David Colvin. Harry N Abrams. From the publisher: "Oscar Wilde was the central literary figure of the fin de siecle, and, in his own words, 'a man who stood in symbolic relation to his times'. Celebrated first as a poet and writer of brilliant essays and charming fables, he was also a perceptive critic and an incisive moral and political thinker."10. The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
by Oscar Wilde, Rupert Hart-Davis (Editor), Merlin Holland (Editor). Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated. From the publisher: "Deliciously wicked, astoundingly clever, and often outright shocking, Oscar Wilde put his art into his work and his genius into his life. In this collection, replete with newly discovered letters, the full extent of that genius is unveiled."