Member NicholasOakley

Real Name

Nicholas Oakley

About My Library

Various, but especially books about, or by, monomaniacs, bibliophiles, scholars, cranks, aesthetes, heretics, hermits, introverts, fanatics, conspirators, nomads, sceptics, loners, radicals, monks, cognoscenti, idlers, outsiders, frontiersmen, stoics, etc

About Me

'It must be supposed that reading was one of his morbid habits, as he fell upon everything that came into his hands with equal avidity...' (Chekhov, Ward No. 6, 1892)

Location

Inverness, Scotland

Memberships

LibraryThing Early Reviewers

Favorite Authors

Paul Auster, Honoré de Balzac, Italo Calvino, Albert Camus, Anton Chekhov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, André Gide, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Nikolai Gogol, Hermann Hesse, Victor Hugo, Aldous Huxley, Franz Kafka, Thomas Mann, Guy de Maupassant, Molière, Haruki Murakami, Vladimir Nabokov, George Orwell, Viktor Pelevin, Georges Perec, Alexandre Dumas, Marcel Proust, Bertrand Russell, Jean-Paul Sartre, William Shakespeare, Stendhal, Robert Louis Stevenson, Patrick Süskind, Jonathan Swift, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Voltaire, Émile Zola

Local Favorites

Bookstores: Borders - Birmingham, Leakey's Bookshop, Oxfam Bookshop - Birmingham, Oxfam Bookshop - Worcester, Waterstone's Birmingham High Street, Waterstone's Birmingham New Street, Waterstone's Leamington Spa

Libraries: Acocks Green Library, Library of Birmingham, Main Library - University of Birmingham, Olton Library, Selly Oak Library, Solihull Central Library

Member Connections

Friends

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