Non-Fiction of Gay Interest
The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
by Neil McKenna
Publisher: Arrow
London, UK

Year


 		2004       first publ: 2003
Cover / size: Paperback / h 19.8 cm * w 13.1 cm
717 pp / b&w photos & illus

Dustjacket?   n/a

ISBN: 0099415453

Arbery Ref:   000266

Condition Very Good

Edges and pages beginning to discolour, spine slightly curled, but binding tight and book apparently unread

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McKenna: The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde


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Content:

Biography of Wilde focusing on his sexual life, based on previously-known and hitherto unpublished resources.


Background / Biography:

Biographical information on Neil McKenna does not appear to be available online and is not included in this book.


Oscar Wilde


Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment for homosexuality, followed by his early death.
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Reviews:

"Intriguing and entertaining ... McKenna makes an impassioned case for re-gaying Wilde." The Times (UK)

"A groundbreaking new biography of our greatest queer martyr." The Observer (UK)

"Sex, drugs and rock'n'roll in a smoking jacket ... Fascinating." The Pink Paper (UK)

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"It was unusually hot that last Saturday in May, and the small, cramped and badly ventilated courtroom at the Old Bailey was stifling. It was the last day of the second trial of Oscar Wilde on charges of gross indecency with young men, and everyone confidently expected that a verdict would be reached by the end of the afternoon. Every available seat was occupied, and the courtroom was, the Illustrated Police Budget reported, 'crowded to suffocation'."

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