OSCAR WILDE HIS LIFE AND CONFESSIONS VOLUME 1

Oscar Wilde, the literary genius of his day. The first celebrity since “Mad Bad and dangerous Shelly” to go public with his private life, but unlike Shelly a man destroyed by his passions. Frank Harris is more than a biographer looking back, casting out judgments from another perspective. Harris was Wilde’s friend. Harris however manages to maintain the proper distance from Wilde to present a sympathetic account of Wilde yet he can also be critical of his friend. Harris’s account is presented in 2 volumes. This is volume 1