I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation: And Other Quotations from Oscar Wilde
- ISBN-10
- 0231104561
- ISBN-13
- 9780231104562
- Series
- I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 198
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1996
- Publisher
- Columbia University Press
- Author
- Oscar Wilde
Description
More than 1,000 quotations from Wilde on subjects from absinthe to Zola as well as selections from personal letters filled with poignant remarks on his life and the human condition.
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