The Importance of Being Oscar: The Life and Works of Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde in 1889

Oscar Wilde once stated that the only thing worse than being talked about was NOT being talked about. From a childhood in an eminent Protestant Dublin family, then time as a flamboyant student at Oxford, and his arrival on the London scene, Oscar Wilde was a larger-than-life figure in his time. He was a playwright, wit, advisor on home decoration, novelist and poet.

“We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars”, Wilde once stated. He has become one of the great ‘stars’ of the world of literature. Find out about the tragedy of his life and the comedy of his works.

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Oscar Wilde: we have only to hear the great name to anticipate that what will be quoted as his will surprise and delight us.” ― Richard Ellmann

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Featured image credit- Oscar Wilde in 1889. Picture by W. and D. Downey, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=692360

Comments (4)

  1. Jane C Hunt

    Susannah,

    I just want to thank you for an outstanding talk on Oscar Wilde. Please do another on an author — Dickens? Trollope? The Bronte Sisters? Margaret Atwood? The Golden Booker? Penelope Lively?

    I was surprised by the reference to syphilis and Oscar Wilde. I was unaware of that complication to his life.

    Thank you again. Thanks to you, I am now reading The Picture of Dorian Gray and watching every movie I can find about his plays and life on Netflix and Amazon Prime.

    All the best,

    Jane Hunt

    • Susannah Fullerton

      Thanks so much for your kind comments, Jane. I am delighted tht you enjoyed the video talk so much and that I can now reach readers in the USA through my talks. As you have found from my website, I do offer talks on many other fabulous authors. You might also like to consider joining my Tea with a Book Addict series, which takes you to 12 countries with 12 books this year. Each talk is given by zoom, but also sent to you as one of my video talks which you can watch whenever it suits you. The first one on LP Hartley’s The Go-Between has already been given, but if you subscribe, that will be sent to you.
      Happy reading!

  2. Jane Todd

    Thanks for another fascinating talk. There is so much to admire about this writer. I’m going to look for his letter to Bosie right now!

    • Susannah Fullerton

      Oscar is fabulous. I think there are some recoreded versions of his letter to Bosie, De Profundis. I once heard it read on stage and it was mesmerising. I am so glad you enjoyed my new video talk.

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