The Exquisite Life of Oscar Wilde

An incisive moral and political thinker, wit, and brilliant critic, Oscar Wilde was without question the greatest literary figure of the fin de siecle. At the height of his talent he had the world at his feet. But then it all went tragically wrong. Tried and jailed for homosexual offenses, he spent his last days a broken man in France shunned by almost everyone who had feted him. This is Oscar Wilde's story, written by Stephen Calloway and David Colvin, with a dazzling collection of photographs and illustrations of his life and contemporaries.Calloway, Stephen is the author of 'The Exquisite Life of Oscar Wilde' with ISBN 9781566490740 and ISBN 156649074X.