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An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays | Series: New Mermaids
One of the nineteenth century's most successful and most frequently revived plays, An Ideal Husband has divided critics more than any other of Wilde's plays. Treating political intrigue, financial fraud, blackmail, scandal and spin, and the role of women in public life, it is a play which engaged with i ...Show more
Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by OSCAR WILDE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection | Reading Level: very good
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
Complete Short Fiction (Oscar Wilde) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Fiction | 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 And Other Prison Writings by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics
"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 Politics | 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 Politics
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
Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
Beautiful, aristocratic, an adored wife and young mother, Lady Windermere is 'a fascinating puritan' whose severe moral code leads her to the brink of social suicide. The only one who can save her is the mysterious Mrs Erlynne whose scandalous relationship with Lord Windermere has prompted her fatal imp ...Show more
Lies (Vintage Minis) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | 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