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Mar 05, 2009 in the secret life of oscar wilde, neil mckenna provides stunning new insight into the tumultuous sexual and psychological worlds of this brilliant and tormented figure. Jan 21, 2014 constances life with oscar was brief a little more than ten years as londons most famous literary couple when in 1895 the secret life he led with lord alfred bosie douglas exploded publicly, first in a libel suit, then in a criminal suit for sodomy that sent wilde to prison for two years. Neil mckennas the secret life of oscar wilde charts fully for the first time oscars astonishing erotic odyssey. Oscar wildes unconventional life began with an equally unconventional family. Oscar wilde wanted his life to be a great dramatic work, the tale of the genius brought down by a fatal weakness, of a man who. In 2003, centuryrandom house published the secret life of oscar wilde by. So said oscar wilde of his remarkable life a life more complex, more erotic, more troubled and more triumphant than any of his contemporaries ever knew or suspected. Download pdf oscar wilde and the candlelight murders.
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