A biography of nineteenth-century author Oscar Wilde, following him from his childhood in an intellectual Irish household to his death in France, and discussing his writing career, his American tour, his marriage, his scandalous sexual behavior, and his exile.
"Confronted at every turn by an insatiable audience of sometimes hostile interviewers, the young poet tried out a number of phrases, ideas, and strategies that ultimately made him famous as a novelist and playwright. Seeing America and Americans for the first time, Wilde's perception often proved as sharp as his wit; the echoes of both resound in much of his later writings. His interviewers also succeeded in getting him to talk about many other topics, from his opinions of British and American writers (he thought Poe was America's greatest poet) to his views of Mormonism. This volume cites all ninety-one of Wilde's interviews and contains transcripts of forty-eight of them, and it also includes his lecture on his travels in America."--BOOK JACKET.
A revealing new biography--the first in more than fifty years--of one of the twentieth-century's towering literary figures -- James Joyce, author of "Ulysses.".
Life as seen through the eyes of a ten-year-old Irish boy, Patrick Clarke, is a poignant voyage through a bewildering, ever-changing world of family, friends, dreams, and growing up.
A guide to Irish literature, beginning with fourth century writing and continuing through the 1990s, with over 2,000 entries on authors and their works, movements and genres, tales, history, religion, mythology and folklore, and archaeology.
Collects hundreds of letters spanning the life of nineteenth-century Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, including correspondence with such figures as W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, William Gladstone, and Max Beerbohm.
