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Article: OSCAR WILDE ACCORDING TO THE EPISTLES.(Review)
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- Contemporary Review
- Article date:
- June 1, 2001
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The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis, editors. Fourth Estate. [pound]35.00. 1270 pages. ISBN 1-85702-781-7.
As sea-salt is to spume, so letters are to conversation, solidifying and preserving the froth of wit and wisdom, fret and fume, which would otherwise have died still-born on the air of their delivery. But more than that in the case of this gigantic bundle of the collected epistles of Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde: the letters track his life. They are, as Merlin Holland, his grandson, points out, the autobiography that he never wrote', charting his footsteps from Irish nursery and school, through undergraduate days ...
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