I had 3 pieces from Wilde on the list - I've previously read a *bit* of him (about 10 stories, mostly thanks to Dedalus Books Decadence series) but, for example, haven't tackled an obvious must-read like The Picture of Dorian Grey. It is no stretch to claim to claim that Dorian Gray is a Faustian character, whilst the hedonistic Lord Henry represents a model of Huysmans' own Des Esseintes as a sort of Mephistopheles who coaxes Dorian towards his doom. Oscar had an elder brother, Willie, and a younger sister, Isola Francesca, who died at the early age of 10. This project, which will draw the Oxford University Press Complete Works of Oscar Wilde to a conclusion, involves editing his famous epigrams, both in their published and manuscript forms, as well as a group of works that deserve to be better known among scholars and general readers: the lectures he delivered to many different audiences in Canada, England, Ireland, and the United States during the 1880s; numerous unpublished essays and reviews; and - perhaps most important - several unfinished dramas, which include several courageous plays that address sensitive topics such as incest, adultery, and illegitimacy. A number of Wilde's letters and manuscripts can also be found at The British Library, as well as public and private collections throughout Britain, the United States and France.

Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume collection of Wilde’s texts available, containing his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford where, a disciple of Pater, he founded an aesthetic cult.

When he caught sight of Lord Henry, a faint blush coloured his cheeks for a moment, and he started up. He worked as an art reviewer (1881), lectured in the United States and Canada (1882), and lived in Paris (1883). uniformly bound in yellow buckram, lettered in gilt on black title panels on upper spines, deckled text block edges with top edges in gilt. Illustrated with many fascinating photographs, the book includes introductions to each section by Merlin Holland (Oscar’s grandson), Owen Dudley Edwards, Declan Kiberd and Terence Brown.

He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. His most famous plays are famous for a reason, they were really well written and the way he constructed them caught the reader off guard with unexpected endings. Io e la saggistica siamo proprio su due pianeti diversi: nemmeno l'intervento di Wilde è riuscita a farmela apprezzare, tanto che ho trovato questi scritti incredibilmente pesanti e di difficile comprensione.Quite forget what he does—afraid he—doesn’t do anything—oh, yes, plays the piano—or is it the violin, dear Mr. It is not he who is revealed by the painter; it is rather the painter who, on the coloured canvas, reveals himself.

I am usually not one for poetry and only read poems if it is absolutely neccessary but I felt needed to give Wilde's a chance, especially since they are of his earliest work, when he was, whom I like to regard as, Baby-Wilde. We offer a money back guarantee if you are not fully satisfied, please contact us if you have any questions.The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn. Your mysterious young friend, whose name you have never told me, but whose picture really fascinates me, never thinks. These kind of essays/arguments *are* important - it *was* important that someone had them and they *remain* important as records of thought processes, as we try to move forward - except we don't seem to be moving forward very much and those records seem to be ignored, as we seem to JUST KEEP HAVING the same binary us/them, good/bad stupid/reductive arguments over and over again even centuries later (just recently, in my life in fact). pages, blue cloth; chipped dj Finally taken from the earliest manuscript, it is released to the public for the first time in its entirety, unexpurgated.

Wilde’s works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. 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. Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) counts among the best known and most quoted modern authors, who enjoyed - until the sensation caused by his 1895 trial and two-year prison sentence - a dazzling career as a major essayist, fabulist, dramatist, and poet. And Lord Henry struck a light on a dainty silver case and began to smoke a cigarette with a self-conscious and satisfied air, as if he had summed up the world in a phrase. Now, the value of an idea has nothing whatsoever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works, and is available in both hardback and this paperback edition.