'The year's unputdownable joy.' Jonathan Keates, Spectator
'Almost like living his life with him One puts down the letters heavy with mixed emotions admiration, sorrow and exasperation.' Peter Lewis, Daily Mail
'You get a wonderful sense, such as even the best biography couldn't quite give, of Wilde in action from day to day living in the thick of society, hustling his career forward. A monument to his great personality.' John Gross, Sunday Telegraph
'The long serpentine line of Oscar Wilde's career is traced here like some fiery scarlet thread. This is a marvellous volume, fully worthy of Wilde's own genius.' Peter Ackroyd, The Times
'These letters give us the human side of Wilde's legend and its human cost.' Philip Hoare, Observer
'A whole world is here. *****' Craig Brown, Mail on Sunday
'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
'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
'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. They are filled with the terror and the pity of Wilde's extravagant career, not untouched by pathos, and irradiated always by perpetual and wilful laughter.' Times Literary Supplement
'Meticulously edited, intelligently annotated, the letters were a biographer's dream.' Irish Times
'These 1,500 letters are always candid, always humorous (even in adversity) and add substantially to Wilde's reputation not only as a wit but as an intellectual heavyweight.' The Times Books of the Year
