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Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde [Illustrated] (Hardcover)

by Merlin Holland (Editor)
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  • Hardcover: 340 pages
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate Ltd; illustrated edition edition (7 April 2003)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0007154186
  • ISBN-13: 978-0007154180
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 47,902 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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PRAISE FOR THE COMPLETE LETTERS OF OSCAR WILDE: "The scholarship of Holland and Hart-Davis is as impeccable as their subject's wit, while the letters themselves bear comparison with any more conventional form of literary art." Times Literary Supplement "Meticulousy edited, intelligently annotated, the letters were a biographer's dream." Irish Times "These letters give us the human side of Wilde's legend and its human cost." Observer "The most comprehensive collection yet of Wilde's correspondence, charting his development from ambitious young man about town to literary dandy and tortured outcast" Guardian "To have the full weight of his letters published is almost like living his life with him...one puts down the letters heavy with mixed emotions - admiration, sorrow and exasperation." Daily Mail "Even those who know it well will once more fall under the spell of Wilde's charmed words as he sings his way to oblivion. This is a marvellous volume, fully worthy of Wilde's own genius." The Times "Oscar Wilde writes his own life in the newly revised and expanded Complete Letters. The one essential book on the subject." The Independent Books of the Year


Julian Barnes, Guardian Books of the Year 2003

'A thrilling read'
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5.0 out of 5 stars Witnessing Wilde first hand, 15 Nov 2004
While reading this book you follow Oscar through the worst period of his life, in court, denying his identity. It feels like you're there in the courtroom with him, watching the terrible events unfold. You can feel the trial slipping away in Queensberry's favour, and truth be told it makes for quite painful reading. It's wonderful to hear Oscar still making people laugh, even under cross-examination from an old college fellow - he said Edward Carson would "pursue his case with all the added bitterness of an old friend" and he was right. Oscar's sharp witticisms are often a light relief from the darkness that covers the trial.

If you are interested in Wilde then this is essential reading. It's an inescapable part of his life, and this is, without a doubt, the best account you will get of it.

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars An incredible document, 5 April 2007
By Doll Common (Cambridge, UK) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Irish Peacock and Scarlet Marquess: The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde (Paperback)
This is really one of a kind - the transcript of one of history's most famous and most scandalous trials.

Reading the details and transcripts of Wilde's trial is a strange and intriguing experience. The reader becomes totally involved in the already-decided fate of Wilde; one moment entertained and laughing at Wilde's unique aphorisms and put-downs, the next heart-wrenchingly appalled at the futility of such remarks in the face of his ever-increasingly inevitable fate. It is interesting to note, for example, that although Wilde has been adopted as a gay hero, he is unwaveringly adamant in his denial of his own homosexuality - a harsh and sad reflection of the ignorance of the times. At once a historical document (the repetition of the charge of 'sodomy' for example is due to the fact that the term 'homosexuality' did not exist at this point, and Wilde's trial was one factor in its appearance in the English language), and an emotionally gripping novel-like journey, this text is compulsive reading.
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