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Wilde about Oscar; The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. Edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis (Fourth Estate, pounds 35). Reviewed by Richard Edmonds.(Books)

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From: The Birmingham Post (England)
Date: 20001118
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Byline: Richard Edmonds

What would Wilde have done had he lived on? Would he have sent emails, voice-mails, facsimiles and so on? And to extend the thought a little further, have not all these modern technological gimmicks killed the art of the letter completely?

Who, after all, would actually sit down to unveil their thoughts to a dear friend when today they can easily pour a flood of inane chatter into a mobile phone while using a public toilet or sitting in the theatre.

It does mean that a book as vast as this one, all 1,200 pages of it (edited by Merlin Holland, ...

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