The secret life of Oscar Wilde / Neil McKenna.

Author: McKenna, Neil.

Edition: Paperback ed.

Publisher: New York : Basic Books, 2006, c2005.

ISBN: 9780465044399
0465044395

Description: xiv, 539 p., [16] p. of plates : ill., ports. ; 25 cm.

Subject: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900.
Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Relations with men.
Sex customs England London History 19th century.
Authors, Irish 19th century Biography.
Gay men Great Britain Biography.
London (England) Social life and customs 19th century.

Notes: Originally published: London : Century, 2003.

Contents: May 1895 -- Wonder and remorse -- Tea and beauties -- A little in love -- Nothing but my genius -- Freedom from sordid care -- The marriage cure -- Against nature -- An ideal wife -- Playing with fire -- Mad and coloured loves -- Poets and lovers -- Æolian harps -- Spiritualised sodomy -- Shadow and song -- John and Dorian -- Scarlet threads -- Outlawed noblemen -- Apples of Sodom -- Wild and terrible music -- Strange green flowers -- Hyacinth and Narcissus -- Gay, gilt and gracious -- Prophets and priests -- For love or money -- Feasting with panthers -- The madness of kisses -- Brazen candour -- A pugilist of unsound mind -- A schoolboy with wonderful eyes -- On a gilded barge -- The Scarlet Marquis -- The boys on the beach -- The arsenic flower -- Love's sacrifice -- Passionate fauns -- Hideous words -- Raking Piccadilly -- Vexed and persecuted lovers -- Fighting with panthers -- So very ugly -- Kill the bugger! -- Oscar at bay -- The love that dares to speak its name -- A foul and dark latrine -- Bitter waters -- From the depths -- Comfort and despair -- Two outcast men -- A joy-song -- November 1900.