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Article: A picture of Oscar Wilde.(Book review)
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- The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide
- Article date:
- September 1, 2007
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Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters
Edited by Merlin Holland
Carroll & Graf. 384 pages, $27.95
ONE HUNDRED YEARS after the death of Oscar Wilde in 1900, all of his known surviving letters--1,562 of them--were published, edited by his grandson, Merlin Holland (with the late Rupert Hart-Davis). Now Holland has edited a selection of those letters, shorn of scholarly impedimenta, to reach a broader public. In his words: "All of these editions ... relied heavily on the scholarly apparatus of copious footnotes to put the letters in context and I feel that the time has now come to make my grandfather's correspondence accessible to a broader public with ...