Review
PRAISE FOR THE COMPLETE LETTERS OF OSCAR WILDE: "The scholarship of Holland and Hart-Davis is as impeccable as their subject's wit, while the letters themselves bear comparison with any more conventional form of literary art." Times Literary Supplement "Meticulousy edited, intelligently annotated, the letters were a biographer's dream." Irish Times "These letters give us the human side of Wilde's legend and its human cost." Observer "The most comprehensive collection yet of Wilde's correspondence, charting his development from ambitious young man about town to literary dandy and tortured outcast" Guardian "To have the full weight of his letters published is almost like living his life with him...one puts down the letters heavy with mixed emotions - admiration, sorrow and exasperation." Daily Mail "Even those who know it well will once more fall under the spell of Wilde's charmed words as he sings his way to oblivion. This is a marvellous volume, fully worthy of Wilde's own genius." The Times "Oscar Wilde writes his own life in the newly revised and expanded Complete Letters. The one essential book on the subject." The Independent Books of the Year
Julian Barnes, Guardian Books of the Year 2003