Oscar Wilde Audiobook

" Thorough. Excellent. "

" Wonderful book of the sometimes tragic life of one of literature's most brillant characters. "

" "Biography lends to death a new terror." -Oscar Wilde "

" Great - a must for anyone interested in Oscar Wilde. "

" I love this book, its interesting and symapthetic for Oscar and covers his life well before and after his infamy! "

" I was a gay man when I was 17 years old, I swear. "

" Great bio of a most interesting (understatement) character. "

" There are some factual errors in this book, which Ellmann wrote shortly before he died (a review of the scholarship can uncover these). Nevertheless, it is an indispensable biography for all Wilde scholars and those who simply love him as a writer and wit. "

" An exemplary biography - elegantly told, scrupulously researched, detailed, compassionate and complete. "

" A little too much detail for me. I felt like if the author found Oscar's grocery list he'd include it. "

" A great read and an essential life, but depressingly insistent in its attempts to enlist Wilde's writing for a kind of middlebrow acceptability, and pathetic on his sexuality. "

" like everyone says, the definitive biography of O.W. but the syphillis thing? COME ON!! but i like this book b/c it gives so many details and it so well written and researched, except for the syphillis thing, as i said before. "

" A meticulously researched book, a true lover of Wilde. A hard read at times because it seems that you must be very familiar with Wilde's work, even more obscure pieces, and his contemporaries. But he writes about the tragedy of Wilde's unjust imprisonment with great sensitivity. "

" Read this a long while ago, but I remember it being an informative and intelligent biography, without being too academic. "

" oscar is my favorite geigh evar. we have the same birthday. "

" The only biography - quite simply a masterpiece. (Except for the unfortunate photograph of 'Oscar' in drag, mistakenly identified by Ellmann.) "

" my god footnotes on footnotes "

" It's an amazing biography "

" Greatly detailed, perhaps a little romantisized, and my go-to book for almost anything Wildean. "

" this actually is a lifechanging book "

" My second favorite literary biography of all time, second only to Sybill Bedford's biography of Aldous Huxley. This is also the saddest literary life I've ever read, and yet remains over a century later a landmrk in literary and civil rights history. "

" I learned a lot. I found the whole thing fascinating. I could have done without some of the really minor details, but overall, I enjoyed it. "

" This biography is worth every minute. When finished, you will understand Oscar Wilde the man, and you will mourn for him. That's about the best recommendation I can write. "

" I'm reading this for a class so been putting alot of extra effort into understanding but I with it was more blunt sometimes:/ that way I always knew what he was trying to say. "