"I don't regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do anything one does. I lived on honeycomb." Oscar Wilde

Although it is over 120 years since his infamous trial for indecency, Oscar Wilde has never held greater fascination for us. This packed illustrated biography tells the life of Oscar Wilde through his own words – private letters, poems, plays, stories and legendary witticisms. It includes his relationships with key artists and writers of the time, including John Ruskin, Charles Ricketts, and Lillie Langtry.

It is illustrated throughout with paintings, engravings, contemporary photographs, cartoons and caricatures of Wilde and his social circle. With illustrations and paintings by Aubrey Beardsley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, James Whistler and Max Beerbohm,

it is a beautiful evocation of the glittering fin de siecle word by its most fascinating wordsmith and aesthete.

The book details Wilde's ruin after the trial and its outcome. The profundity of his writing from prison and exile form an epitaph, not only to his own life, but also for the era that carelessly delighted in it.

“我一刻也不后悔为快乐而活。我做得很充分，就像一个人做任何事情都应该这样做。我靠蜂窝煤生活。”——奥斯卡·王尔德（Oscar Wilde）

尽管自奥斯卡·王尔德因猥亵罪受到臭名昭彰的审判以来已经过去了120多年，但他从未让我们感到如此着迷。这本图文并茂的传记通过奥斯卡·王尔德自己的话语——私人信件、诗歌、戏剧、故事和经典的俏皮话，讲述了他的一生，以及他与当时的主要艺术家和作家的关系，包括约翰·罗斯金（John Ruskin）、查尔斯·里基特（Charles Ricketts）和莉莉·朗特里（Lillie Langtry）。

该书通篇配有王尔德及其社交圈的绘画、版画、当代照片、卡通和漫画的插图。还有奥布里·比尔兹利（Aubrey Beardsley）、亨利·德·图卢兹-劳特累克（Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec）、詹姆斯·惠斯勒（James Whistler）和马克斯·比尔博姆（Max Beerbohm）的插图和绘画，这是由迷人的文字学家和美学家对闪亮的世纪末的文字的美丽召唤。

该书详细介绍了王尔德在审判后的毁灭及其结果。他在狱中和流放期间的深刻写作形成了一个墓志铭，不仅是为他自己的生活，也是为那个漫不经心地为之欣喜的时代。