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Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9780486111001
Amusing, thought-provoking epigrams, aphorisms, and other jests from the plays, essays, and lively conversation of Oscar Wilde offer a feast of humorous and profound quips. Nearly 400 quotes.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Jarrold Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Quotations, English
ISBN : 0711710457
In Oscar Wilde, the words and wit of the 19t h century author, poet and playwright demonstrate his keen o bservation and analysis of the society in which he lived. '
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : First Avenue Editions ™
Page : 86 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781467756549
Jack Worthing gets antsy living at his country estate. As an excuse, he spins tales of his rowdy brother Earnest living in London. When Jack rushes to the city to confront his "brother," he's free to become Earnest and live a different lifestyle. In London, his best friend, Algernon, begins to suspect Earnest is leading a double life. Earnest confesses that his real name is Jack and admits the ruse has become tricky as two women have become enchanted with the idea of marrying Earnest. On a whim, Algernon also pretends to be Earnest and encounters the two women as they meet at the estate. With two Earnests who aren't really earnest and two women in love with little more than a name, this play is a classic comedy of errors. This is an unabridged version of Oscar Wilde's English play, first published in 1899.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2023-10-17
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781435173125
When handsome young Dorian Gray sees a painter’s stunning portrait of him, he is transfixed by its reflection of his own beauty. He is also troubled by the knowledge that the image in the painting will remain forever youthful and handsome while he himself will grow older and less desirable. He wishes aloud that the roles were reversed, saying that he would give his soul if only the painting would suffer the ravages of time and he were to remain forever young. From that point on, Dorian lives a life of hedonistic indulgence, knowing that only the painting will show his moral corruption.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1949
Category : Irish prose literature
ISBN : 9781427046093
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780486168425
"I have put my genius into my life," declared Oscar Wilde, adding, "I have put only my talent into my works." This gift edition of the renowned poet and playwright's aphorisms draws upon both realms. Hundreds of sparkling jests and epigrams include quips from Wilde's personal letters and conversations as well as his fiction, essays, lectures, and plays. The most comprehensive collection of Wilde's witticisms, it will delight both longtime fans and new readers.
Author : Oscar Wilde,Gyles Daubeney Brandreth
Publisher : Robert Hale Limited
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0709057091
Oscar Wilde was described by George Bernard Shaw as "the greatest talker of his time—perhaps of all time," and the quotations included in this book lend credence to that claim. Wilde's aphorisms have found a place in the British vocabulary, and this collection, arranged in alphabetical order by subject, includes hundreds of quotations drawn from his plays, his letters, and from the memoirs of his contemporaries.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Lindhardt og Ringhof
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-18
Category : Art
ISBN : 9788728104002
Could it be that people who never lie are devoid of creativity? If that’s true, then all creative art must be founded in lies. ‘The Decay of Lying’ is a beguiling essay on the nature of art, in all its forms. Set in the library of a country house in Nottinghamshire, and written as a dialogue between Cyril and Vivian, ‘The Decay of Lying’ sets out to prove just how creative we can all be, as long as we defy societal conventions. Referencing everyone from the Ancient Greeks to Shakespeare, this is Wilde at his most thoughtful and mischievous. For anyone interested in art or witty debate. Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish novelist, poet, playwright, and wit. He was an advocate of the Aesthetic movement, which extolled the virtues of art for the sake of art. During his career, Wilde wrote nine plays, including ‘The Importance of Being Earnest,’ ‘Lady Windermere’s Fan,’ and ‘A Woman of No Importance,’ many of which are still performed today. His only novel, ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’ was adapted for the silver screen, in the film, ‘Dorian Gray,’ starring Ben Barnes and Colin Firth. In addition, Wilde wrote forty-three poems, and seven essays. His life was the subject of a film, starring Stephen Fry.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : The Floating Press
Page : 39 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781877527654
The Soul of Man under Socialism is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde. Wilde puts forth the argument that within a capitalist system "the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism - are forced, indeed, so to spoil them" - that the necessity of solving the problems that capitalism creates draws away the talent that could otherwise be used to fulfill one's potential. In taking the the cause of this away, "Socialism itself will be of value simply because it will lead to individualism."
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12-04
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781537822570
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 impulse. And Mrs Erlynne has a secret - a secret Lady Windermere must never know if she is to retain her peace of mind.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Blurb
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2019-01-09
Category : Self-Help
ISBN : 1364015048
It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. Moren than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
Author : James Geary
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-02-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781608197620
Starting with the ancient Chinese and ending with contemporary Europeans and Americans, The World in a Phrase tells the story of the aphorism through spirited and amusing biographies of some of its greatest practitioners, including Emily Dickinson, and Mark Twain and Dorothy Parker; great French aphorists like Montaigne, La Rochefoucauld, and Chamfort; philosophers like Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, and Wittgenstein; as well as prophets and sages like the Buddha, Lao Tzu, and Jesus. In our modern age, The World in a Phrase explores how aphorisms still retain the power to instigate and inspire, enlighten and enrage, entertain and edify. James Geary is the author of The Body Electric: An Anatomy of the New Bionic Senses. He lives in London with his wife and three children. "James Geary's celebration of the smallest-and sometimes wisest-of literary forms. Geary defines the characteristics of aphorisms and discusses their history and their role in his life, and shares the work of renowned aphorists from Buddha to Dr. Seuss."-Associated Press
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-07-12
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780486122434
More than 1000 ripostes, paradoxes, and epigrams on sin, society, genius, wealth, men, women, religion, America, education, and smoking: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes," "I can resist everything except temptation," etcetera. Also excerpts from his trial testimony, where the tragedy implicit in Wilde's humor is nowhere more vivid.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0231104561
More than 1,000 quotations from Wilde on subjects from absinthe to Zola as well as selections from personal letters filled with poignant remarks on his life and the human condition.
Author : Aaron Ben-Ze'ev
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226634067
Is love best when it is fresh? For many, the answer is a resounding “yes.” The intense experiences that characterize new love are impossible to replicate, leading to wistful reflection and even a repeated pursuit of such ecstatic beginnings. Aaron Ben-Ze’ev takes these experiences seriously, but he’s also here to remind us of the benefits of profound love—an emotion that can only develop with time. In The Arc of Love, he provides an in-depth, philosophical account of the experiences that arise in early, intense love—sexual passion, novelty, change—as well as the benefits of cultivating long-term, profound love—stability, development, calmness. Ben-Ze’ev analyzes the core of emotions many experience in early love and the challenges they encounter, and he offers pointers for weathering these challenges. Deploying the rigorous analysis of a philosopher, but writing clearly and in an often humorous style with an eye to lived experience, he takes on topics like compromise, commitment, polyamory, choosing a partner, online dating, and when to say “I love you.” Ultimately, Ben-Ze’ev assures us, while love is indeed best when fresh, if we tend to it carefully, it can become more delicious and nourishing even as time marches on.