{"product_id":"9780099415459","title":"The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde","description":"\u003cp\u003e Author(s): McKenna, Neil \u003cbr\u003e Binding: Paperback, \u003cbr\u003e Date of Publication: 05\/09\/2002,\u003cbr\u003e Pagination: 752 pages,\u003cbr\u003e ISBN13\\EAN\\SKU: 9780099415459,\u003cbr\u003e Description: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘I have put my genius into my life but only my talent into my work’. So said Oscar Wilde of his remarkable life – a life more complex, more erotic, more troubled and more triumphant than any of his contemporaries ever knew or suspected.  Neil McKenna’s The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde charts fully for the first time Oscar’s astonishing erotic odyssey through Victorian London’s sexual underworld. Oscar Wilde emerges as a man driven personally and creatively by his powerful desires for sex with men, and Neil McKenna argues compellingly and convincingly that Oscar’s Wilde’s life and work can only be fully understood and appreciated in terms of his sexuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book draws of a vast range of sources, many of them previously unpublished, and includes startling new material like the statements made to the police by the male prostitutes and blackmailers ranged against Oscar Wilde at his trial which have been lost for over a century.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDazzlingly written, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde meticulously and brilliantly reconstructs Oscar Wilde’s emotional and sexual life, painting an astonishingly frank and vivid portrait of a troubled genius who chose to martyr himself for the cause of love between men.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Griffin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43697943871532,"sku":"9780099415459","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0379\/1365\/7388\/files\/9780099415459.jpg?v=1722608364","url":"https:\/\/www.griffinbooksonline.co.uk\/products\/9780099415459","provider":"Griffin Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}