The fullest, most textural, most accurate--most human--account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life--based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life. Simp...(展开全部)

Oscar Wilde's life - like his wit - was alive with paradox. He was both an early exponent and a victim of 'celebrity culture': famous for being famous, he was lauded and ridiculed in equal measure. His achievements were frequently downplayed, his successes resented. He had a genius for comedy but strove to write tragedies. He was an unabashed snob who nevertheless delighted in ...(展开全部)

This is the long-awaited first novel from one of the most original and memorable writers working today. Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of al...(展开全部)

This is the long-awaited first novel from one of the most original and memorable writers working today. Things have never been easy for Oscar, a sweet but disastrously overweight, lovesick Dominican ghetto nerd. From his home in New Jersey, where he lives with his old-world mother and rebellious sister, Oscar dreams of becoming the Dominican J. R. R. Tolkien and, most of al...(展开全部)

Oscar is a sweet but fat sci-fi obsessed introvert who -- from the New Jersey home he shares with his old world mother and rebellious sister -- dreams of becoming the Dominican J.R.R. Tolkien and, most of all, of finding love. But Oscar may never get what he wants. Blame the fuku -- a curse that has haunted Oscar's family for generations, following them on their epic journey fr...(展开全部)

理查德•艾尔曼（Richard Elmann） 1918年，生于密歇根州海兰帕克。曾在耶鲁和都柏林的圣三一学院就学，曾任教于哈佛大学、耶鲁大学、西北大学、埃默里大学、芝加哥大学、印第安纳大学和牛津大学。在牛津大学，担任戈德史密斯英国文学教授一职，还是新学院的研究员。在撰写《詹姆斯•乔伊斯传》（1959年国家图书奖获得者）之前，他还撰著了《叶芝：其人其面具》和《叶芝的身份》，出版乔伊斯传后，除了其他广获赞誉的书籍之外，他整理了两册乔伊斯书信，还撰著了《国家征用权》和《都柏林四杰》。1987年5月，《奥斯卡•王尔德传》杀青之际，艾尔曼在牛津去世。为了此书，他曾耗时二十年进行研究、调查和撰述。 萧 易 1974年12月生于金陵，曾就读美国印第安纳大学，现定居加拿大。译著包括《谎言的衰落：王尔德艺术批评文选》、《伍尔夫传》、《非常时代：进步主义时期的美国...(展开全部)

理查德•艾尔曼（Richard Elmann） 1918年，生于密歇根州海兰帕克。曾在耶鲁和都柏林的圣三一学院就学，曾任教于哈佛大学、耶鲁大学、西北大学、埃默里大学、芝加哥大学、印第安纳大学和牛津大学。在牛津大学，担任戈德史密斯英国文学教授一职，还是新学院的研究员。在撰写《詹姆斯•乔伊斯传》（1959年国家图书奖获得者）之前，他还撰著了《叶芝：其人其面具》和《叶芝的身份》，出版乔伊斯传后，除了其他广获赞誉的书籍之外，他整理了两册乔伊斯书信，还撰著了《国家征用权》和《都柏林四杰》。1987年5月，《奥斯卡•王尔德传》杀青之际，艾尔曼在牛津去世。为了此书，他曾耗时二十年进行研究、调查和撰述。 萧 易 1974年12月生于金陵，曾就读美国印第安纳大学，现定居加拿大。译著包括《谎言的衰落：王尔德艺术批评文选》、《伍尔夫传》、《非常时代：进步主义时期的美国...(展开全部)

The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde - psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable, central to a alluring cultural world and someone whose life assumed an unbearably dramatic shape.

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)

What if you could live again and again, until you got it right? On a cold and snowy night in 1910, Ursula Todd is born to an English banker and his wife. She dies before she can draw her first breath. On that same cold and snowy night, Ursula Todd is born, lets out a lusty wail, and embarks upon a life that will be, to say the least, unusual. For as she grows, she also dies,...(展开全部)