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Genre/Form: | Personal correspondence Correspondence |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Oscar Wilde. London ; New York : Fourth Estate, 2003 (OCoLC)607070908 Online version: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Oscar Wilde. London ; New York : Fourth Estate, 2003 (OCoLC)607851436 |
Named Person: | Oscar Wilde; Oscar Wilde; Oscar Wilde |
Material Type: | Biography |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Oscar Wilde; Merlin Holland |
ISBN: | 0007161034 9780007161034 |
OCLC Number: | 52829255 |
Notes: | Includes indexes. |
Description: | xv, 384 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | The Student 1868-1878 -- Charming London 1879-1881 -- Discovering America 1882 -- The Conformist Rebel 1883-1890 -- Against the Grain 1891-1895 -- The Prisoner 1895-1897 -- A Sort of Freedom 1897 -- The Second Time Around 1897-1898 -- The Final Years 1898-1900. |
Other Titles: | Correspondence. Life in letters |
Responsibility: | selected and edited by Merlin Holland. |
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ON THE COMPLETE LETTERS OF OSCAR WILDE: 'The long serpentine line of Oscar Wilde's career is traced here like some fiery scarlet thread. This is a marvellous volume, fully worthy of Wilde's own genius.' The Times 'A whole world is here. *****' Mail on Sunday 'The year's unputdownable joy.' Spectator 'The next best thing to Wilde's own presence. Opening this book, one walks into the company of a spirit so large and generous, of such dash and charm, that one is grateful such largesse has been captured at the very moment it is being distributed - to those recipients who were once as eager, as amused, as captivated as the readers of these letters will be today.' Irish Times 'Nowhere does he seem more sympathetic, or more engaging. The letters bring you as close as you can get to the man himself - warts and all, but magic and all as well. You get a wonderful sense, such as even the best biography couldn't quite give, of Wilde in action from day to day - living in the thick of society, hustling his career forward. Perpetually gripping.' Sunday Telegraph 'Here we have the whole triumph-to-tragedy in the writer's own wonderful words.' Literary Review Read more...


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