Oscar WildeRichard Ellman
Oscar Wilde
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…Rupert Everett biopic before reading this article. Sounds interesting. I want to throw out a recommendation for the Ellman biography mentioned in the article: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5294.Oscar_Wilde I consider it one of the great small triumphs of my life that I once persuaded my younger brother (a college engineering student at the time whose taste bent toward fantasy and sci-fi) to pick it up.…
on “Wilde about Paris: the sex, drink and liberation of Oscar Wilde’s “lost” years” ↗Those of a more light-hearted temperament might prefer Ellman's book on Oscar Wilde. But Joyce is himself very adequately described and amusingly so.
on “Yes I Will Read Ulysses Yes” ↗