num_pages: 535
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: George Alexander, George Ives, Archibald Brainridge, John  Gray, Dorian Gray, John Douglas, 9th Marquess of Queensberry, John Addington Symonds, Oscar Browning, Constance Lloyd, Francis Douglas, Viscount Drumlanrig, Frank Harris, Cyril Graham, Walter Pater, Henry Labouchère, Alec Scudder, André Gide, Robert Sherard, Lord Alfred Douglas, Robbie Ross, More Adey, Archibald Primrose, 5th Earl of Rosebery, William Shakespeare, Reginald Turner, Edward Carson, W.H. Auden, Willie Hughes, George Bernard Shaw, Marc-André Raffalovich, Walt Whitman, Clive Durham, William Butler Yeats, Max Beerbohm, Maurice Hall, Richard Ellmann, Lionel Johnson, Oscar Wilde, Edward Shelley, Charles Kains Jackson
genres: Historical, Biography, Queer, LGBT, British Literature, Nonfiction, Gay, Literature, Biography Memoir, History
ratings_count: 738
places: England, Paris, London, England
awards: awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Stonewall Book Award
category: Non-Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Randy Shilts Award
category: Gay Nonfiction
publisher: Century