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Discovery of books from the library of Oscar Wilde

April 13, 2016 - Gerald Cloud

Oscar Wilde in New York, 1882, from the Oscar Wilde Literary File at the Harry Ransom Center.

This post was written in collaboration with author and independent scholar Thomas Wright.

Oscar Wilde was many things: dramatist, dandy, essayist, lecturer, novelist, poet—and he was very much a bibliophile.

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Filed Under: Authors, Books + Manuscripts Tagged With: Andre Raffalovich, Arthur Goddard, bibliophile, Cicero, De Profundis, Dublin, Edward Freeman, James Thomason, journalism, Lord Alfred Douglas, Magdalen College, marginalia, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Oscar Wilde, Oscar Wilde Literary File, Oscar’s Books, Oxford, personal libraries, Theodore Tilton, Thomas Wright, Trinity College

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