The Critic as Artist (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

The Critic as Artist (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

In The Critic as Artist, arguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertaining, Oscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary between art and criticism. Subtitled Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything,

Salome (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

Salome is Oscar Wilde's most experimental - and controversial - play. None, however, could deny the importance of Wilde's creation. This edition uses the English translation by Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. Appendices detail the play's sources and provide extensive materials on its

The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

'The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde' is as the title would suggest a collection of whimiscal tales by Oscar Wilde. This collections includes the following short stories: The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, The Remarkable Rocket, The Young

How to be Idle (Hodgkinson Tom)(Paperback / softback)

As Oscar Wilde said, doing nothing is hard work. The Protestant work ethic has most of us in its thrall, and the idlers of this world have the odds stacked against them. This book presents us with a laid-back argument for a contract between routine and chaos, an argument for experiencing life to

Ballad of Reading Gaol (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback / softback)

Oscar Wilde's most famous poem, with illustrations and an afterward with background

The Complete Short Stories (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. Admired by George Orwell and W. B. Yeats, the stories include poignant fairy-tales such as 'The Happy Prince' and 'The Selfish Giant,' the extravagant comedy of 'Lord

Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

The crowning plays of one of Ireland's most heralded artists Oscar Wilde was at once a family man and a homosexual outsider, a socialite, socialist, and Irish nationalist. His contradictions inspired him to ponder the roles and masks donned in conventional society, and his acute and wry insights

Oscar Wilde: The Major Works (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

Oscar Wilde's dramatic private life has sometimes threatened to overshadow his great literary achievements. His talent was prodigious: the author of brilliant social comedies, fairy stories, critical dialogues, poems, and a novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. In addition to Dorian Gray, this volume

The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

'And I? May I say nothing, my lord?' With these words, Oscar Wilde's courtroom trials came to a close. The lord in question, High Court justice Sir Alfred Wills, sent Wilde to the cells, sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor for the crime of 'gross indecency' with other men. As cries of

Complete Poetry (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

This volume of Keats's powerful poetry follows as closely as possible the chronological order of composition, highlighting autobiographical elements including the young Wilde's conflicting attitudes to Greece and Rome, pagan and Christian, and his fluctuating attraction to Roman Catholicism. The

Poetry of Oscar Wilde (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback / softback)

Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius (Belford Barbara)(Paperback)

In this elegant and affectionate biography of one of the most controversial personalities of the nineteenth century, Barbara Belford breaks new ground in the evocation of Oscar Wilde's personal life and in our understanding of the choices he made for his art. Published for the centenary of Wilde's

Oscar Wilde Stories For Children (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback / softback)

Oscar Wilde's stories are much-loved classics and make a fantastic story collection. They are timeless. moving and very readable. Complemented by atmospheric and evocative artwork from a leading illustrator. Titles included are: The Selfish Giant, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Devoted Friend,

Happy Prince - A Tale by Oscar Wilde (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback / softback)

The Anatomy of Influence: Literature as a Way of Life (Bloom Harold)(Paperback)

Our most revered critic returns to his signature theme 'Literary criticism, as I attempt to practice it,' writes Harold Bloom in The Anatomy of Influence, 'is in the first place literary, that is to say, personal and passionate.'For more than half a century, Bloom has shared his profound knowledge

The Importance of Being Earnest (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

The Importance of Being Earnest is one of the most enduringly popular of British comic dramas, and a mainstay of English literature and drama courses at college and university level. This is an ideal edition for students with on-page notes to help clarify meaning, and a completely new introduction

An Ideal Husband: Second Edition, Revised (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

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

A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man (Joyce James)(Paperback)

James Joyce's Portrait of an Artist is one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century, and one of the most innovative. Its originality shocked contemporary readers on its publication in 1916 who found its treating of the minutiae of daily life as indecorous, and its central

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

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

The Quotable Oscar Wilde: A Collection of Wit and Wisdom (Running Press)(Pevná vazba)

The Last Days Of Oscar Wilde (Vanderslice John)(Paperback)

Meet Oscar Wilde. His life is ending.The year is 1898. Wilde's reputation is in ruins. After the scandal, after the trial, and after the incarceration at Reading Gaol, Wilde lives in precarious exile in Paris. His friends urge him to start another great work, a new play or poem. But Wilde's

Level 4: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback / softback)

Classic / British English An artist paints a picture of the young and handsome Dorian Gray. When he sees it, Dorian makes a wish that changes his life. As he grows older, his face stays young and handsome. But the picture changes. Why can't Dorian show it to anybody? What is its terrible

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Wilde Oscar)(Paperback)

Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides - Nominated as one of America's best-loved novels by PBS's The Great American Read Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author's most popular work. The