Oscar's Books by Thomas Wright

Oscar's Books by Thomas Wright

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. through his undergraduate years in which he built his intellect out of books;

"Entertaining and highly original, Oscar's Books is animated by a real intellectual passionIt 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 *

Of Anglo-Irish descent, Thomas Wright was educated at Saint Thomas More School, Bedford. Overwhelmed by The Picture of Dorian Gray in his teens, he applied for Magdalen, Oscar Wilde's college at Oxford, and was accepted; during his time there he occupied a room containing the fireplace that once stood in the library of Wilde's Chelsea home. He has frequently lectured on Wilde and written countless articles about him. He is the author of Oscar Wilde's Table Talk. Thomas Wright lives in Genoa and London, and sometimes writes about subjects unconnected with his hero.

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ISBN 13	9780099502722
ISBN 10	0099502720
Title	Oscar's Books
Author	Thomas Wright
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage Publishing
Year published	2009-09-03
Number of pages	384
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