The Life of Oscar Wilde
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The Life of Oscar Wilde

Michael Holroyd
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The remarkable and tragic story of Oscar Wilde, legendary wit and conversationalist, author of perhaps the most perfect comedy in the English language, yet seemingly doomed by his own flawed temperament to suffer at the hands of a censorious and hypocritical society... Widor, Curzon, Dvorák, Grieg, Tchaikovsky, Chabrier
Genres: BiographyNonfiction
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