Kategoria BISAC: Fiction >> General

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) has probably attracted more critical and biographical attention in recent years than any other writer of the late 19th century. Renowned for his skills in shocking a prurient bourgeosie, he first built his career as a raconteur and stylish public speaker. An accomplished poet from an early age, he became known in the 1880s for his work as an editor and journalist. By the turn of the 1890s, he was emerging as one of the most influential essayists of his time. In the four years leading up to the trials of 1895, he produced four theatrically- innovative Society comedies...