Oscar Wilde

Name: Oscar Wilde
Brand: Blackstone Audiobooks
Availability: InStock
Author: Frank Harris
ISBN: 9781441703323

Author: Frank Harris

Narrator: Robert Whitfield

Unabridged: 11 hr 5 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.

Published: 05/01/2009

Categories: Nonfiction, Biography & Autobiography

Synopsis

Frank Harris, a journalist and editor, delighted in Oscar Wildes genial wit and selfassurance. Wildes verbal charms evoked Harris financial and emotional support when Victorian England disdained the playwright for his paganism and imprisoned him for homosexual offenses. Harris relates the proceedings of Wildes trial and the malice that sent him to France after release from Prison.Later years found Harris increasingly frustrated with Wilde, as the playwrights humor gave way to bitterness and selfpity. Repeatedly, Harris urged the author of The Importance of Being Earnest to continue to write. His pleas met with excuses, indolence, and incessant requests for money. Harris frustration peaked when he bought an idea for a play from Wilde, then learned that Wilde had already sold the idea to several others.

About Frank Harris

Frank Harris (1856–1931), born in Ireland of Welsh parents, was a naturalized-American author, editor, journalist, and publisher. He attracted much attention during his life for his irascible, aggressive personality, editorship of famous periodicals, and friendship with the talented and famous. He is remembered mainly for his multiple-volume memoir My Life and Loves, which was banned in countries around the world for its sexual explicitness.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Elaine on September 01, 2012

I recently became obsessed with Oscar Wilde after reading "A picture of Dorian Gray" and was seized by a need to know everything about him. I read both volumes of Harris' Life and Confessions" over a weekend and chose his book as I could down load it free to my iphone:)I'm not sure how it rates comp......more

Goodreads review by Shane on July 08, 2013

I was surprised by how accessible this biography was. Harris' informal tone makes it seem like you're carrying on a conversation and his frankness tells you as much about that author as it does Wilde. I learned a good deal about Oscar Wilde that I hadn't before, but the author's close relationship d......more

Goodreads review by Dan on January 03, 2024

Después de terminar de leerlo siento que Oscar, Frank Harris y yo somos besties.......more

Goodreads review by Ali on July 02, 2017

I came across Harris' biography of Oscar Wilde at the back of a Kindle edition of Wilde's complete works, after rereading some of the short stories for the nth time. Critics, including my favourite Ellman, argue that Harris was self-aggrandising and unreliable. However his excellent advice to Wilde......more

Goodreads review by Moth on December 20, 2022

"he was a sort of silent, sympathetic older brother. fortunately for me, he could not talk at all" I hate this man with a passion he is the worst human being I've ever had the displeasure to read about he's SO ANNOYING and for what? anyway 10/10......more