by Neil McKenna
Drawing on long-lost or overlooked material, this is a major new
biography of Wilde's emotional and sexual life.
'Extraordinary, intensely passionate and quite beautiful' - Manchester Evening News (UK)
'A nice complement to Richard Ellmann's definitive Wilde biography' - Library Journal
'Exhaustively documented, but ultimately reductive and incomplete.' - Kirkus Reviews
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