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Built of Books An entirely new kind of biography, Built of Books explores the mind and personality of Oscar Wilde through his taste in books This intimate account of Oscar Wilde?s life and writings is richer, livelier, and more personal than any book available about the brilliant writer, revealing a man who built himself out of books. His library was his reality, the source of so much that was vital to his life.... Full description
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For Wilde, as for many people, reading could be as powerful and transformative an experience as falling in love. He devoured books, talked books, luxuriated in books and lavished books on his friends- they played, too, a vital part in his seductions of young men.
Oscar's Books tells the story of Wilde's life through his reading, from his childhood in Dublin, where he was nurtured on Celtic myth, Romantic poetry and Irish folklore; through his undergraduate years in which he built his intellect out of books; to prison, where his friends supplied him with literature which saved his sanity; to his final years in Paris where he consoled himself with old favourites such as Flaubert and Balzac.
Fresh, utterly engaging and wholly original, Oscar's Books is an entirely new kind of biography.
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"Entertaining and highly original, Oscar's Books is animated by a real intellectual passion. It should be read by anyone interested in Wilde or in the art of literary biography" (Peter Ackroyd)
"Wholly original book about reading, its comforts and its perils, an eccentric landmark in the art of literary biography" (Mail on Sunday)
"The premise of the book is gorgeous...the book is both thorough and intriguing" (Guardian)
"No other scholar of Wilde has succeeded so well in moving into Oscar's head" (Irish Times)
"A remarkable new biography...the result is an original and compelling book" (Literary Review)
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- ÉditeurHenry Holt & Co
- Date d'édition2009
- ISBN 10 0805089934
- ISBN 13 9780805089936
- ReliureRelié
- Langueanglais
- Numéro d'édition1
- Nombre de pages370
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Hardcover. Etat : Good. Oscar Wilde's life has been studied in detail, in numerous publications, and its richness and liveliness is undoubted. Thomas Wright, Oxford-educated scholar of Wilde's work, takes a new tack in studying his life: analyzing Wilde's extensive personal library. Wright observes that much of Wilde's life was lived through the prism of his favorite books, and the relationships he developed through reading were just as important as his friends, family, or lovers. Twenty years of reading on Wright's part finally resulted in his living through the intellectual and emotion environment of Oscar Wilde's life, and has produced this marvellous exploration of Wilde's life and literacy. N° de réf. du vendeur 2501803
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