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Oscar Wilde's Secret Life.(The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde)(Book Review)
From: Contemporary Review
Date: 20040601
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The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde. Neil McKenna. Century. [pounds sterling]20.00. 535 pages. ISBN 0-7126-6986-8.
The circumloquant litterae Oscariensis are, by any count, wildly in excess: the shelf bows beneath the bulky figure. Is Mr McKenna's hefty, post-Ellmann 535-pager de trop? I think, warts and all, not. The theory it vaunts, Wilde, the political pawn, playing official sacrificial ram to the salvation of Rosebery and Drumlanrig is by no means novel. Neither, though long ago burked, has it ceased to breathe. But it is not here, or anywhere else, neatly, geometrically as it ...
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