num_pages: 576
description: 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. McKenna charts Wilde's astonishing odyssey through London's sexual underworld, and provides explosive new evidence of the political machinations behind Wilde's trials for sodomy. Dazzlingly written and meticulously researched, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde offers a vividly original portrait of a troubled genius who chose to martyr himself for the cause of love between men.
language: English
title: The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
titlecomplete: The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde
characters: Marc-André Raffalovich, Dorian Gray, Richard Ellmann, Alec Scudder, Walter Pater, Max Beerbohm, Edward Shelley, Lionel Johnson, Archibald Brainridge, William Shakespeare, Robbie Ross, Willie Hughes, W.H. Auden, William Butler Yeats, Maurice Hall, George Bernard Shaw, Edward Carson, Clive Durham, Oscar Wilde, André Gide, More Adey, Charles Kains Jackson, Francis Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig, John Addington Symonds, Constance Lloyd, Henry Labouchère, Lord Alfred Douglas, Reginald Turner, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, Robert Sherard, John  Gray, George Ives, Oscar Browning, Walt Whitman, Frank Harris, George Alexander, Cyril Graham
genres: Historical, Biography, LGBT, Gay, Queer, Literature, British Literature, Nonfiction, History, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 738
places: Paris, London, England, England
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Randy Shilts Award
category: Gay Nonfiction
publisher: Basic Books