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An Ideal Husband (Play) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Drama Classics S.
A subtle satire of the British hypocrisy that allows public figures to conceal private duplicities.
Complete Short Fiction (Oscar Wilde) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Classics Ser.
The complete short stories of the masterful Irish writer Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners--the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styles. Victorian moral just ...Show more
De Profundis by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Biography & Memoir
Oscar Wilde wrote "I don't defend my conduct, I explain it, " when he was imprisoned in Reading Gaol in 1895 for his violation of England's stringent laws against homosexuality. Wilde's notorious liaison with the Marquess of Queensberry's son, Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie"), had so inflamed the Marquess ...Show more
De Profundis And Other Prison Writings by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Biography & Memoir
"De Profundis and Other Prison Writings" is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in "Penguin Classics", edited and introduced by Colm Toibin. At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most recent stage success, "An Ideal Husband". But by May of ...Show more
Importance of Being Earnest by WILDE OSCAR
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: Norton Critical Editions
The text of this new Norton Critical Edition of Oscar Wilde's most famous play is the established three-act version. It is accompanied by explanatory annotations and by an appendix of excised portions. "Backgrounds" includes essays on Wilde and the 1890s by prominent cultural critics. Contemporary revie ...Show more
In Praise Of Disobedience - The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Culture & Ideas | Reading Level: near fine
Works of Wilde's annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright. The Soul of Man Under Socialism draw on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest works in prose -- the year he came into maturity as an ...Show more
In Praise of Disobedience - The Soul of Man under Socialism and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde; Neil Bartlett (Introduction by)
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Category: Culture & Ideas
Works of Wilde's annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright. The Soul of Man Under Socialism draw on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest works in prose -- the year he came into maturity as an ...Show more
Lies (Vintage Minis) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
From disguises and impostors to locked doors and deadly secrets, Wilde was obsessed with lying as an art form rich with delights- and dangers.Selected from Wilde's essays, plays and prose including The Picture of Dorian Gray.VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by ...Show more
Nightingale and the Rose Del Kathryn Barton by Del Kathryn Barton (Illustrator); Oscar Wilde
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Category: Art
THIS 9 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Best Known Works of Oscar Wilde, by Oscar Wilde. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 076613010X.
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics 119 | Reading Level: very good
"Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. "
Oscariana: Epigrams by Oscar Wilde; Matthew Sturgis (Foreword by)
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Category: Biography & Memoir
In 1895 Arthur Humphreys - a director of Hatchards and a friend of Oscar Wilde - printed fifty copies of a small eighty-eight-page compendium of Wilde's epigrams, culled from his published works. It was titled Oscariana. The initial selection had been made by Wilde's wife, Constance, but Wilde had not b ...Show more
Selected Plays by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Between 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde's drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest made his name as a playwright who fearlessly mocked the hypocrisy and snobbery of Victorian society and took gleeful delight in appearing to tr ...Show more