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The Fireworks of Oscar Wilde
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| Format | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages | 282 |
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| Open Library | OL7794095M |
| ISBN 10 | 071264671X |
| ISBN 10 | 9780712646710 |
The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde’s works. Continuously in print since , 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, . Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October – 30 November ) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early s.
Inscribed and dated: “Oscar Wilde, May 74” and “December , Oscar F. Wilde, 1 Merrion Sq.” Wilde appears to have read this book during the final months of his time as an undergraduate at Trinity College Dublin, between the winter of and the summer of when he took the entrance exam for : Gerald Cloud. A popular perception persists of Oscar Wilde as an idle aesthete. Is this a fair portrayal? It is a carefully cultivated image that Wilde developed. For example, when he was told to take a scene out of The Importance of Being Earnest by the actor-manager George Alexander, he replied: ‘This scene you feel is superfluous cost me terrible exhausting labour and heartrending nerve .
A new book of Wilde’s handwritten manuscripts, THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (SP Books, $), grants readers unfiltered access to lines of pure, unadulterated affection that the author was Author: Lauren Christensen. Directed by Brian Gilbert. With Stephen Fry, Jude Law, Vanessa Redgrave, Jennifer Ehle. The turmoil in poet/playwright Oscar Wilde's life /10(K).
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Find more information about: ISBN: X The Fireworks of Oscar Wilde, edited by Owen Dudley Edwards, Barrie & Jenkins (London, England), Aristotle at Afternoon Tea: The Rare Oscar Wilde, edited by John Wyse Jackson, Fourth Estate (London, England), The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems, Dover (Mineola, NY), Author, playwright and poet Oscar Wilde was a popular literary figure in late Victorian England.
After graduating from Oxford University, he lectured as a poet, art critic and a leading proponent of the principles of aestheticism. Inhe published The Picture of Dorian Gray, his only novel which was panned as immoral by Born: Must-read books by Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde was one of the greatest of Irish writers and playwrights known around the world.
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Addeddate Bookplateleaf Internet Archive Books. Scanned in China. Uploaded by Lotu Tii on Aug SIMILAR ITEMS (based on metadata) Pages: This is a bibliography of works by Oscar Wilde, a late-Victorian Irish writer. Chiefly remembered today as a playwright, especially for The Importance of Being Earnest, and as the author of The Picture of Dorian Gray; Wilde's oeuvre includes criticism, poetry, children's fiction, and a large selection of reviews, lectures and private correspondence has also been Articles↙: 4.
Wilde wore many masks during his too short life. He was an academic classicist, a poet and a didactic aesthete. He was an aphorist, a progressive journalist, a provocative essayist and a tragedian. Oscar: A Life by Matthew Sturgis – review A fastidious new biography of Oscar Wilde delves into letters and a libel trial transcript to give a.
Wilde was born of professional and literary parents. His father, Sir William Wilde, was Ireland’s leading ear and eye surgeon, who also published books on archaeology, folklore, and the satirist Jonathan mother, who wrote under the name Speranza, was a revolutionary poet and an authority on Celtic myth and folklore.
After attending Portora Royal School, Enniskillen. Wilde became devoted to Aestheticism during these Oxford years (see "Oscar Wilde's Aesthetics" in Critical Essays at the end of this book for more information on the Aesthetic movement). He was able to laugh at the movement's superficial excesses as well as his own.
Oscar Wilde was born in in Dublin, Ireland to prominent intellectuals William Wilde and Lady Jane Francesca Wilde. Though they were not aristocrats, the Wildes were well-off and provided Oscar with a fine education. Oscar was especially influenced by his mother, a brilliantly witty raconteur, and, as a child, he was frequently invited to.
Oscar Wilde's unconventional life began with an equally unconventional family. He was born Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde on Octoat 21 Westland Row, Dublin, Ireland. His father, Sir William Wilde, was an eminent Victorian and a doctor of aural surgery. The ever-quotable Oscar Wilde once said, ""Anybody can make history.
Only a great man can write it."" From his outsize celebrity in Victorian London to his authorship of fiction, drama, and poetry that uniquely captured his era, it's fair to say that Wilde succeeded on both counts. The Works of Oscar Wilde [set of writings/plays/novels including The Happy Prince, The Canterville Ghost, An Ideal Husband, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, The Selfish Giant, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, A House of Pomegranates, De Profundis, Lady Windermere's Fan, The Duchess of Padua, A Woman of No Importance, Lord.
The main characters of this book are all well-known authors in their own rights. Choose one of the works of Oscar Wilde, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, or Robert Sherard as the book for your next book-club reading. Try starting with Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray, which he was in the process of writing during the events of this book.
The Best Known Works of Oscar Wilde: Poems, Novels, Plays, and Fairy Tails by Oscar Wilde and a great selection of related books, art and collectibles available now at. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by Project Gutenberg.
The Trial of Oscar Wilde, from the Shorthand Reports by Charles Grolleau - .Oscar Wilde Dies After a deathbed conversion to Catholicism, Oscar Wilde dies of meningitis in Paris at the age of He is buried first in Cimitiere de Bagneaux, but his tomb is later moved to Paris' famed Père Lachaise Cemetery.
A Portrait of Oscar Wilde, as the book is titled, is an example of a nearly lost tradition. “This is the sort of thing very posh people in England used to .
