The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde

Wilde, Oscar, edited by Merlin Holland, and Rupert Hart-Davis

ISBN 10: 0805059156 / ISBN 13: 9780805059151

Published by Henry Holt, 2000

About this Item

ex-library, usual library markings, otherwise clean and sound, barely used, octavo, 1270 pages, stated first edition, first printing.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
• Publisher: Henry Holt
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805059156
• ISBN 13: 9780805059151
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Good

About this title

Synopsis

In honor of the centennial of Wilde's death, a comprehensive collection of the great writer's correspondence includes more than two hundred previously unpublished letters and traces his life and literary career from his Irish youth to his rise to fame to the scandal that nearly destroyed him and his final exile in Paris. 17,500 first printing.

About the Authors

Merlin Holland is a journalist who has devoted over twenty years to researching his grandfather's life. Author of The Wilde Album (0-8050-5894-X), he lives in London with his wife and son. Rupert Hart-Davis was the editor of the original collected letters of Oscar Wilde, published in 1962, as well as the editor of numerous other volumes of Wilde's work.

Merlin Holland is a journalist who has devoted over twenty years to researching his grandfather's life. Author ofThe Wilde Album (0-8050-5894-X), he lives in London with his wife and son. Rupert Hart-Davis was the editor of the original collected letters of Oscar Wilde, published in 1962, as well as the editor of numerous other volumes of Wilde's work.