How Long to Read Oscar Wilde, the Story of an Unhappy Friendship. By: Robert H. (Harborough) Sherard

How Long Does it Take to Read Oscar Wilde, the Story of an Unhappy Friendship. By: Robert H. (Harborough) Sherard?

It takes the average reader 1 hour and 15 minutes to read Oscar Wilde, the Story of an Unhappy Friendship. By: Robert H. (Harborough) Sherard by Robert H. Sherard

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Robert Harborough Sherard (3 December 1861 - 30 January 1943) was an English writer and journalist. He was a friend, and the first biographer, of Oscar Wilde, as well as being Wilde's most prolific biographer in the first half of the twentieth century. Life Born on 3 December 1861 at Putney, England, Sherard began life as Robert Harborough Sherard Kennedy and was the son of the Reverend Bennet Sherard Calcraft Kennedy, an illegitimate son of the 6th Earl of Harborough by the actress Emma Love. His mother was Jane Stanley Wordsworth, a granddaughter of the poet William Wordsworth. He dropped the surname Kennedy upon moving to Paris in late 1882 after a quarrel with his father, who cut him off from the expected family inheritance. Sherard was educated at Elizabeth College, Guernsey, the University of Oxford and the University of Bonn. In 1887 he married firstly Marthe Lipska, a daughter of the Baron de Stern, secondly in 1908 Irene Osgood, and thirdly in 1928 Alice Muriel Fiddian..... Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art," and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to the absolute prohibition of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London......

How long is Oscar Wilde, the Story of an Unhappy Friendship. By: Robert H. (Harborough) Sherard?

Oscar Wilde, the Story of an Unhappy Friendship. By: Robert H. (Harborough) Sherard by Robert H. Sherard is 74 pages long, and a total of 18,796 words.

This makes it 25% the length of the average book. It also has 23% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Oscar Wilde, the Story of an Unhappy Friendship. By: Robert H. (Harborough) Sherard Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 1 hour and 42 minutes to read Oscar Wilde, the Story of an Unhappy Friendship. By: Robert H. (Harborough) Sherard aloud.

What Reading Level is Oscar Wilde, the Story of an Unhappy Friendship. By: Robert H. (Harborough) Sherard?

Oscar Wilde, the Story of an Unhappy Friendship. By: Robert H. (Harborough) Sherard is suitable for students ages 8 and up.

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