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

By: Thomas Wright

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

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ISBN: 9780099502722

Format: Paperback
Published: 1st November 2009

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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.