Author: Oscar Wilde
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Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde ....
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
Author: Merlin Holland
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 9780805059151
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
Here is Oscar Wilde revealed in his own words--including more than 200 previously unpublished letters--available to coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of his death Deliciously wicked, astoundingly clever, and often outright shocking, Oscar Wilde put his art into his work and his genius into his life. In this collection, replete with newly discovered letters, the full extent of that genius is unveiled. Charting his life from his Irish upbringing to fame in his fin de siècle London to infamy and exile in Paris, the letters--written between 1875 and 1900 to publishers and fans, friends and lovers, enemies and adversaries--resound with Wilde's wit, brilliance, and humanity. Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland, and Rupert Hart-Davis have produced a provocative and revealing self-portrait. Wilde's reputation as a serious thinker, humorous writer, and gay icon continues to flourish. The Complete Letters is an intimate exploration of his life and thoughts--Wilde in his own words.
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 9780805059151
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 1408
Book Description
Here is Oscar Wilde revealed in his own words--including more than 200 previously unpublished letters--available to coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of his death Deliciously wicked, astoundingly clever, and often outright shocking, Oscar Wilde put his art into his work and his genius into his life. In this collection, replete with newly discovered letters, the full extent of that genius is unveiled. Charting his life from his Irish upbringing to fame in his fin de siècle London to infamy and exile in Paris, the letters--written between 1875 and 1900 to publishers and fans, friends and lovers, enemies and adversaries--resound with Wilde's wit, brilliance, and humanity. Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland, and Rupert Hart-Davis have produced a provocative and revealing self-portrait. Wilde's reputation as a serious thinker, humorous writer, and gay icon continues to flourish. The Complete Letters is an intimate exploration of his life and thoughts--Wilde in his own words.
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Bantam Classics
ISBN: 0307757684
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” a product of his own prison experience; and four complete plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first dramatic success, An Ideal Husband, which pokes fun at conventional morality, The Importance of Being Earnest, his finest comedy, and Salomé, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written in French and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann. Every selection appears in its entirety–a marvelous collection of outstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who’s been aptly called “a lord of language” by Max Beerbohm.
Publisher: Bantam Classics
ISBN: 0307757684
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594
Book Description
Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” a product of his own prison experience; and four complete plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first dramatic success, An Ideal Husband, which pokes fun at conventional morality, The Importance of Being Earnest, his finest comedy, and Salomé, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written in French and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann. Every selection appears in its entirety–a marvelous collection of outstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who’s been aptly called “a lord of language” by Max Beerbohm.
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 332
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Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198187721
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780198187721
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
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.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
One of the greatest books ever written. A splendid masterpiece...
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Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
One of the greatest books ever written. A splendid masterpiece...
The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 240
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Plays, Prose Writings and Poems
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 599
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 599
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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Dorian Gray
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 296
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The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray
Author: Oscar Wilde
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel's first editor, who feared it would be "offensive" to Victorians.
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Languages : en
Pages : 139
Book Description
Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel's first editor, who feared it would be "offensive" to Victorians.