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.
Thomas Wright
Oscar’s Books [EPUB ebook]
A Journey Around the Library of Oscar Wilde
Oscar’s Books [EPUB ebook]
A Journey Around the Library of Oscar Wilde
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Language English ● Format EPUB ● ISBN 9781446496107 ● Publisher Random House ● Published 2013 ● Downloadable 6 times ● Currency EUR ● ID 2838220 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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