Oscar Wilde

What Hacker News says

1. zabzonkJun 2025
   Those of a more light-hearted temperament might prefer Ellman's book on Oscar Wilde. But Joyce is himself very adequately described and amusingly so.
   thread
2. klenwellJul 2018
   I hadn't heard about Rupert Everett biopic before reading this article. Sounds interesting.

   I want to throw out a recommendation for the Ellman biography mentioned in the article:

   https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5294.Oscar_Wilde

   I consider it one of the great small triumphs of my life that I once persuaded my younger brother (a college engineering student at the time whose taste bent toward fantasy and sci-fi) to pick it up. He went on to read it all the way through with pleasure.

   Show morethread