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Index
Cover
Title
Copyright
Contents
List of Illustrations
Chronology of Wilde’s Life
Introduction: ‘One of the greatest of the many worlds’
Part I Built Out of Books
1 ‘Hear the song of Oscar!’
2 ‘The Irish imagination’
3 ‘Words that are winged with light’
4 ‘Soul-forward, headlong’
5 ‘A good book and a good fire’
6 ‘More than real life’
7 ‘At home with Lucien’
8 ‘Minute and critical’
9 ‘How to love Greek things’
10 ‘How to grow’
11 ‘The true liber amoris’
12 ‘The despotism of fact’
13 ‘Such a strange influence’
Part II The Library
14 ‘Spirit of Beauty! tarry still awhile’
15 ‘Holy of Holies’
16 ‘The falser is the truer’
17 ‘More than usually revolting sentimentality’
18 ‘The vulgar beast’
19 ‘The look of a book’
20 ‘Sensuous and intellectual’
21 ‘Smoke and talk’
22 ‘Mirror of perfect friendship’
23 ‘Touched by other lips’
24 ‘Unseen ideal’
25 ‘Mysterious by this love’
26 ‘The heavy odours of the hothouse’
27 ‘’Arry!’
28 ‘Ribald titles’
29 ‘Queensberry rules’
Part III A Library of Lamentations
30 ‘May I say nothing?’
31 ‘Humanity’s machine’
32 ‘Silence’
33 ‘Books in his hand’
34 ‘The greatest consolation’
35 ‘Words of grace’
36 ‘Dazed with the wonder’
37 ‘Infamous Saint Oscar’
38 ‘There they lie’
39 ‘Interested in others’
40 ‘Rest peaceably’
Afterword: ‘Tutti gli angeli’
Appendices
Appendix I: Wilde’s Letter to the Pall Mall Gazette on the Subject of ‘The Best Hundred Books’
Appendix II: Lists of Books Requested by Wilde, 1895–97
Bibliographical Note
Acknowledgements
Notes
General Index
Index of Authors
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