The first major biography of Oscar Wilde in thirty years is the most complete telling of his life and times to date.

This major biography of the Irish literary titan mines the comedy and tragedy of the work and the life, drawing unprecedentedly on the full transcript of Wilde's libel case against the Marquess of Queensberry.

This excellent biography offers a deeper, more rounded picture of the writer's life, his rise to stardom, his fall and tragic final days ... At once entertaining and scholarly. The man himself would be proud' The Lady.