The Illustrated Letters of Oscar Wilde

A packed and beautifully illustrated biography telling the life of Oscar Wilde through his own words – private letters, poems, plays, stories and legendary witticisms. It includes his relationships with key artists and writers of the time, including John Ruskin, Charles Ricketts, and Lillie Langtry. Illustrated throughout with paintings, engravings, contemporary photographs, cartoons and caricatures of Wilde and his social circle. The book details Wilde's ruin after his trial for indecency in 1895 and its outcome. His letters and writings from prison and later exile provide an in depth study of his own life, and the era that carelessly delighted in it.