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a biography of Lord Alfred Douglas

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Bosie

a biography of Lord Alfred Douglas

1st U.S. ed.
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Lord Alfred Douglas, or "Bosie" as he was known, is destined to be remembered as the lover of Oscar Wilde. Dissolute, wellborn, and beautiful as a young man, his role in the events that led to Oscar Wilde's trial and imprisonment determined the strange celebrity that haunted him until his death.

Biographies of Wilde generally give only a cursory account of what happened to Douglas after Wilde's death, but Bosie recounts the full and absorbing story of his complex life. A successful though now obscure poet, he renounced homosexuality after converting to Roman Catholicism and embarked on an ill-fated marriage to Olive Custance. Lord Alfred's time was largely consumed by his growing interest in religion and costly feuds -- he was imprisoned for libeling Winston Churchill -- and he died a neglected and lonely figure in 1945.

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Hyperion
Language
English
Pages
374

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Bosie: A Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas
2020, Hodder & Stoughton
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Bosie: The Man, The Poet, The Lover of Oscar Wilde
June 19, 2002, Miramax Books
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Bosie: a biography of Lord Alfred Douglas
2001, Sceptre
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Bosie
March 15, 2001, Sceptre
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Bosie: The Man, The Poet, The Lover of Oscar Wilde
June 28, 2000, Miramax Books
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Bosie: a biography of Lord Alfred Douglas
2000, Hyperion
Hardcover in English - 1st U.S. ed.
Cover of: Bosie
Bosie: a biography of Lord Alfred Douglas
2000, Hyperion
Hardcover in English - 1st U.S. ed.
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Bosie: a biography of Lord Alfred Douglas
2000, Hodder & Stoughton
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Bosie: a Biography of Lord Alfred Douglas - Qpd Edition
June 1, 2000, Hodder & Stoughton General Division
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2000, Hyperion
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Edition Notes

"First published in Great Britain in 2000 by Hodder and Stoughton"--T.p. verso.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 359-360) and index.

Genre
Biography

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Format
Hardcover
Pagination
x, 374 p. :
Number of pages
374

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL23246849M
Internet Archive
bosiebiographyof00murr
ISBN 10
0786866535
ISBN 13
9780786866533
LCCN
00026768
OCLC/WorldCat
43562019
Library Thing
128464
Goodreads
963643

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