The Life of Oscar Wilde (New Annotated Edition)

The tragedy of Oscar Wilde is painful reading, painful in the reflection that here was a man unusually gifted, endowed with many fascinating, intellectual and poetic gifts, and a wonderful conversational charm, and yet who, before he had perhaps given to the world the best from his felicitous pen and fertile brain, was unable to bridle passions which shattered the whole fabric of his success, and brought about his social annihilation.