Oscar Wilde's Books
"Similarly, Wilde’s copy of W. H. Mallock’s satire on modern intellectual fads, The New Republic (1877), which is held at Magdalen College, Oxford,
has, appropriately enough, a jam stain visible on page 30. As Wright notes, Wilde “gorged himself on books and food simultaneously”. But if such
negligence nicely suggests Wilde’s lack of respect for books such as Mallock’s, what might it tell us about his wider tastes?"
"Similarly, Wilde’s copy of W. H. Mallock’s satire on modern intellectual fads, The New Republic (1877), which is held at Magdalen College, Oxford,
has, appropriately enough, a jam stain visible on page 30. As Wright notes, Wilde “gorged himself on books and food simultaneously”. But if such
negligence nicely suggests Wilde’s lack of respect for books such as Mallock’s, what might it tell us about his wider tastes?"