May 3, 2012
A Look at the Titles in Famous Authors’ Libraries: Oscar Wilde “Always an outspoken eccentric, The Picture of Dorian Gray author Oscar Wilde enjoyed reading about those who also marched to the beat of their own drummer. His 1893 copy of Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People and a 1927 edition of The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects proves it. His time at Trinity College studying Greek literature is evident from the number of Grecian and classic works on his shelf. Wilde’s navigation — personal and artistic — through Victorian values may have something to do with Psychopathia Sexualisand a title about “sexual inversion.”” (via Flavorwire)

A Look at the Titles in Famous Authors’ Libraries: Oscar Wilde

“Always an outspoken eccentric, The Picture of Dorian Gray author Oscar Wilde enjoyed reading about those who also marched to the beat of their own drummer. His 1893 copy of Children of the Ghetto: A Study of a Peculiar People and a 1927 edition of The Lives of the Painters, Sculptors and Architects proves it. His time at Trinity College studying Greek literature is evident from the number of Grecian and classic works on his shelf. Wilde’s navigation — personal and artistic — through Victorian values may have something to do with Psychopathia Sexualisand a title about “sexual inversion.””

(via Flavorwire)

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