A Fine first Edition/First Printing housed in an equally Fine dust-jacket; This book tells the story of Wilde's life through the books that he read. Wright discusses Wilde's thoughts on reading, as well as the influence that books had on his life.; 8vo; 370 pages.

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Titre: Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde - 1st Edition/1st Printing
�diteur: Henry Holt and Company, New York
Date de parution: 2008
Langue: anglais
ISBN � 10 chiffres: 0805089934
ISBN � 13 chiffres: 9780805089936
Reliure: Hardcover
�dition: First Edition; First Printing.
�tat de l'article: Fine
�tat de la jaquette: Fine

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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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