Four classic comedies from Oscar Wilde. Also includes a dramatization of the only novel Oscar Wilde wrote, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
A collection of Wilde's best and most loved works.
Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life.
Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann.
Gathered together in this volume is a wonderful cross section of his literary genius, including two collections of children's stories; The Picture of Dorian Gray; and the infamous poem, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol".
Here is a collection of this witty and irreverent author's works--all in their most authoritative texts. Includes The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, and other stories and essays.
This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective yarns and comedies of manners.
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Oscar Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure.
"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.
A Book of Quotations Oscar Wilde. I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously , and I live in terror of not being misunderstood . The Critic as Artist .