Built Of Books : How Reading Defined The Life Of Oscar Wilde

Wright, Thomas

ISBN 10: 0805089934 ISBN 13: 9780805089936

Editorial: Holt & Company, Henry, 2009

Idioma: Ingl�s

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370 pages. May require extra postage. Size: 8vo - 7.75" - 9.75" tall.

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Built Of Books : How Reading Defined The Life Of Oscar Wilde

Editor

Holt & Company, Henry

Fecha de publicaci�n

2009

Idioma

Ingl�s

ISBN 10

0805089934

ISBN 13

9780805089936

Encuadernaci�n

Hard Cover

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Good

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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. A reader first, his readerly encounters, out of all of life�s pursuits, are seen to be as significant as his most important relationships with friends, family, or lovers. Wilde�s library, which Thomas Wright spent twenty years reading, provides the intellectual (and emotional) climate at the core of this deeply engaging portrait.

One of the book�s happiest surprises is the story of the author�s adventure reading Wilde�s library. Reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges�s fictional hero who enters Cervantes�s mind by saturating himself in the culture of sixteenth-century Spain, Wright employs Wilde as his own Virgilian guide to world

literature. We come to understand how reading can be an extremely sensual experience, producing a physical as well as a spiritual delight.

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Thomas Wright was educated at Saint Thomas More School in Bedford, England. He lectures frequently on Wilde, and has written countless articles about him. The author of Oscar Wilde�s Table Talk, Wright lives in Genoa and London, and sometimes writes about subjects unconnected with his hero.

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