Save Time with Gift Certificates

Product Information

Oscar's Books : A Journey Through the Library of Oscar Wilde

By: Thomas Wright
Retail Price: $24.95
Booktopia Price $19.95
ISBN: 9780099502722
Format: Paperback
Published: 1st November 2009

All prices in Australian Dollars
Stock Availability
This title is not in stock at the Booktopia Warehouse and needs to be ordered from one of our suppliers. Click here to see "In Stock" titles.
Click here to read more about delivery expectations.

Payment Options

Bank transfers, cheques and money orders are also accepted.
Bookmark and Share
An entirely new kind of biography, Oscar's Books explores the personality of Oscar Wilde through his reading.

For Wilde, as for many people, reading could be as powerful and transformative an experience as falling in love. He referred to the volumes that radically altered his vision of the world as his 'golden books'; he gave books as gifts - often as part of his seduction campaigns of young men; and sometimes he literally ate books, tearing off corners of paper and chewing them as he read.

Wilde's beloved book collection was sold at the time of his trials to pay creditors and legal costs.

Thomas Wright, in the course of his intensive researches, has hunted down many of the missing volumes which contain revealing markings and personal annotations, never previously examined.

The Lost Symbol By Dan Brown
Seasons Greetings from Booktopia
Why is Booktopia ranked as one of the fastest growing companies in Australia?
Booktopia Blog
Booktopia Buzz Newsletter
Cheap Postage! $6.50 per order Australia Wide
Bulk Orders Available. Call us on 02 9954 1080