OSCAR'S BOOKS

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• Straight off the shelf

  Some books end better than they start, and in so doing, may even earn themselves the right to be reread. This might well be one of them. It is only on his last page, after 40 chapters on Wilde's career as both a typical and untypical Dublin-born and ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

• Oscar's Books by Thomas Wright

  Wright tells us he has spent 20 years on a quest to "inspect every book Wilde is known to have read". This makes him sound like a dotty scholar from the fiction of James or Nabokov, and his title suggests a glorified catalogue liable to appeal only t ... (read full critics)

  guardian.co.uk published on Fri, 24 Sep 2010

2 Reviews

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  A surprising new way to know Wilde, his life through his library. But this is also a book to understand how a wonderful and special relation Oscar lived through his books.
  I've enjoyed every single page from the beginning to the end.

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  Feastingwithpanthers said on Oct 9, 2010 | Add your feedback

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  oh sod it. Unfunny man reviews the library of a very funny man. The exercise is totally pointless even for a Wilde sucker like yours truly.

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  Paola said on Aug 30, 2010 | Add your feedback

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• English Books
• Others 384 Pages
• ISBN-10: 0099502720
• ISBN-13: 9780099502722
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Pub date: Oct 27, 2009

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