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The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde by Neil McKenna

The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde

by Neil McKenna

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  • May 2005, 539 pages
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Drawing on long-lost or overlooked material, this is a major new biography of Wilde's emotional and sexual life.

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'Extraordinary, intensely passionate and quite beautiful' - Manchester Evening News (UK)
'A nice complement to Richard Ellmann's definitive Wilde biography' - Library Journal
'Exhaustively documented, but ultimately reductive and incomplete.' - Kirkus Reviews

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