Built of Books: How Reading Defined the Life of Oscar Wilde
by:
Thomas Wright (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780805089936 (0805089934)
Publish date: April 27th 2009
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Pages no: 384
Edition language: English
An interesting, original approach to biography that wasn't nearly the heavy read I was expecting. Unfortunately, the author makes a lot of jumps from the material to what may have motivated Wilde, and it seems that this is more a biography of the author's romantic idea of Wilde, rather than the man...
How very much I loved the idea of this book! I can't imagine why no one ever thought to analyze the content of Wilde's character through the lens of his library before. I think it's brilliant!I like the author's delicate, clear sentences, leavened with a good dose of irony, in the best Wildean tradi...
There's nothing wrong with it, but the idea paled pretty quickly for me. Not a big reader of classics, I just didn't care too much about all of Wilde's classic textbooks.
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