OSCAR’S BOOKS
Book ID/图书代码： 03540008B20549
English Summary/英文概要： An entirely new kind of biography, "Oscar’s Books" explores the personality of Oscar Wilde through his reading. It argues that reading exercised a formative influence on Wilde’s character and was the inspiration for his own writings. "Oscar’s Books" tells the story of Wilde’s ’long and lovely’ life in a way that is fresh and engaging, from his childhood in Dublin, where he was nurtured on Celtic myth, Romantic poetry and Irish folklore; through his undergraduate years, in which he built his intellect out of books; to prison, where the Governor supplied him with literature which saved his sanity; and to his final years in Paris where he consoled himself with old favourites such as Flaubert and Balzac.For Wilde, as for many people, reading could be as powerful and transformative an experience as falling in love. He referred to the volumes that radically altered his vision of the world as his ’golden books’; he gave books as gifts - often as part of his seduction campaigns of young men; and sometimes he literally ate books, tearing off corners of paper and chewing them as he read. Wilde’s beloved book collection was sold at the time of his trial to pay creditors and legal costs.
Thomas Wright, in the course of his intensive researches, has hunted down many of the missing volumes which contain revealing markings and personal annotations, never previously been examined. An unfamiliar Wilde emerges from this book, which draws on unpublished and little known material, yet wears its scholarship lightly. Readers of the 21st century will be enchanted by "Oscar’s Books".
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 通過對奧斯卡•王爾德系列作品的一窺而讀，作者用全新的和令人愉快的詮釋了這位19世紀英國著名的劇作家、詩人和散文家的人格魅力。
這是一本全新的傳記，《奧斯卡的作品》通過閱讀其作品，探索了這位聞名於19世紀，與蕭伯納齊名的作家奧斯卡•王爾德的個性。對於閱讀王爾德作品的大多數人來說，閱讀其作品可能會變成為，像墜入愛河一般地具有強大的改變自己的一個歷程。他所書的系列‘黃金’作品從根本上改變了他對世界觀的設想。他把這些作品作為禮物，常常被當作是一種鼓動年輕一代的一種運動，有時他會吃書，撕掉頁面的一角塞進嘴裏咀嚼，就好像他要品出其味。在他接受審判時，王爾德把所鍾愛的藏書出售，以作為支付債權人和訴訟費用。
【19世紀末的維多利亞女王時代，英國上流社會新舊風尚的衝突激烈。王爾德的自由作風和大膽的政治作風很快使他成為了這場衝突的犧牲品。1895年，昆斯貝理侯爵（Marquess of Queensberry）因兒子阿爾弗萊德•道格拉斯（Lord Alfred Douglas； 別名“波西(Bosie)”）與王爾德交往而令到父子不和，並公然斥責王爾德是一個雞奸者（當時尚未誕生“同性戀”這個名詞）。對此，憤怒的阿爾弗萊德叫王爾德立刻上訴，告侯爵敗壞他的名譽。結果王爾德上訴失敗，更被反告曾“與其他男性發生有傷風化的行為” (committing acts of gross indecency with other male persons)。根據當時英國1855年苛刻的刑事法修正案第11部分，王爾德被判有罪，在瑞丁和本頓維爾監獄服了兩年苦役。】
湯瑪斯•賴特，在他深入研究的過程中，已經追回了王爾德的遺失的許多作品，其中包含了以前從未探查過的那些發人深省的標記和個人注釋。(Sandy)
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