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Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by OSCAR WILDE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection
Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture o ...Show more
De Profundis, Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
Includes the works of Oscar Wilde such as "De Profundis", "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", "The Soul of Man under Socialism" and "The Decay of Lying" and "The Critic as Artist".
Mini Kit: Quotable Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Wit and Wisdom by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: RUNNING PRESS MINIATURES
"I must die as I lived, beyond my means." Arguably the most quoted man in history, and certainly in his day, this enormous miniature collection is filled with Oscar Wildes' most notorious and witty sayings. Organized into five neat sections useful for any situation, this book is perfect for either enjoy ...Show more
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast : Penguin Little Black Classic No. 119 by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics 119
'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself' Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius.
Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics
Widely acknowledged as the most brilliant talker of his age, Wilde once explained to Andre Gide, "I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works". This fine collection of nearly 400 quotes, organised by catefory, contains quotations from both his works and his conversation, includi ...Show more
Picture of Dorian Gray by OSCAR WILDE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Collector's Editions Ser.
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a Gothic and philosophical novel by Oscar Wilde, first published complete in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott's Monthly Magazine. Fearing the story was indecent, the magazine's editor deleted roughly five hundred words before publication without Wilde's knowledge. Despite ...Show more
Plays of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Classics
With an Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty, Royal Holloway, University of London. Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, Lady Windermere's Fan. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret proved a winner, both here and ...Show more
The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics
The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a poem by Oscar Wilde, written in exile in Berneval-le-Grand, after his release from Reading Gaol on 19 May 1897. Wilde had been incarcerated in Reading after being convicted of homosexual offences in 1895 and sentenced to two years' hard labour in prison.During his impriso ...Show more
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Childrens
THE HAPPY PRINCE - CLASSIC TALE - BY OSCAR WILDEIn a town where a lot of poor people suffer and where there are a lot of miseries, a swallow who was left behind after his flock flew off to Egypt for the winter, meets the statue of the late "Happy Prince," who in reality has never experienced true sorrow ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins
In this haunting, magical fairytale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little children and the Star Child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines with poetr ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This c ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. Includes Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy and ...Show more