Oscar Wilde

With a style and wit that equals his subject, Sheridan Morley deftly re-creates the life and times of England’s pre-eminent dandy-aesthete.

From his beginnings as the child of middle-class Irish parents, through his spectacular successes as playwright and wag and his equally spectacular and scandalous antics, to his downfall and imprisonment, this book unravels the enigma. Dozens of illustrations, many in colour.