The Writings Of Oscar Wilde

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Bantam Classics
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780307757685

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The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” a product of his own prison experience; and four complete plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first dramatic success, An Ideal Husband, which pokes fun at conventional morality, The Importance of Being Earnest, his finest comedy, and Salomé, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written in French and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann. Every selection appears in its entirety–a marvelous collection of outstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who’s been aptly called “a lord of language” by Max Beerbohm.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Prisoners' writings
ISBN : 0674984382

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The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Serving prison time with hard labor for the crime of gross indecency, Oscar Wilde wrote some of his most powerful works. A savage indictment of society, and testimony to private sufferings, his prison writings--illuminated by Nicholas Frankel's notes--reveal a different man from the dandy and aesthete who shocked or amused the English-speaking world.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 475 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780226897646

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The Artist as Critic by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Random House, [1969]

Author : Nicholas Frankel
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Art
ISBN : 0472110691

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Oscar Wilde's Decorated Books by Nicholas Frankel Pdf

With extensive reference to and exposition on Wilde's theoretical writings and letters, Frankel shows that, far from being marginal elements of the literary text, these decorative devices were central to Wilde's understanding of his own writings as well as to his "aesthetic" theory of language. Extensive illustrations support Frankel's arguments.".

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781627933650

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The Essential Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Collected her in one omnibus edition are Oscar Wilde's most important works including The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, and The Canterville Ghost. These works of poetry, fiction, drama, and prose encompass Wilde's entire career and they display his range of style and wit. Wilde is one of the most important writers in the history of the English language. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.

Author : Richard Ellmann
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 736 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2013-09-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780804151122

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Oscar Wilde by Richard Ellmann Pdf

Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research and writing of this biography, resulting in a complex and richly detailed portrait of Oscar Wilde. Ellman captures the wit, creativity, and charm of the psychologically and sexually complicated writer, as well as the darker aspects of his personality and life. Covering everything from Wilde's rise as a young literary talent to his eventual imprisonment and death in exile with exquisite detail, Ellmann's fascinating account of Wilde's life and work is a resounding triumph.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1909
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:10143302

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The Writings of Oscar Wilde ... by Anonim Pdf

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2013-01-03
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780141920764

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De Profundis and Other Prison Writings by Oscar Wilde Pdf

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 Tóibín. 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 the same year, Wilde was in Reading prison sentenced to hard labour. 'De Profundis' is an epistolic account of Oscar Wilde's spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his new, shocking conviction that 'the supreme vice is shallowness'. This edition also includes further letters to his wife, his friends, the Home Secretary, newspaper editors and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas - Bosie - himself, as well as 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol', the heart-rending poem about a man sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. This Penguin edition is based on the definitive Complete Letters, edited by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland. Colm Tóibín's introduction explores Wilde's duality in love, politics and literature. This edition also includes notes on the text and suggested further reading. Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin. His three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and A House of Pomegranates, together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, won him a reputation as a writer with an original talent, a reputation enhanced by the phenomenal success of his society comedies - Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest. Colm Tóibín is the author of five novels, including The Blackwater Lightship and The Master, and a collection of stories, Mothers and Sons. His essay collection Love in a Dark Time: Gay Lives from Wilde to Almodovar appeared in 2002. He is the editor of The Penguin Book of Irish Fiction.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 1923
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : UCR:31210012896948

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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde .... by Oscar Wilde Pdf

Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher : Random House
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-30
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781446496107

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Oscar's Books by Thomas Wright Pdf

For Wilde, as for many people, reading could be as powerful and transformative an experience as falling in love. He devoured books, talked books, luxuriated in books and lavished books on his friends- they played, too, a vital part in his seductions of young men. Oscar's Books tells the story of Wilde's life through his reading, from his childhood in Dublin, where he was nurtured on Celtic myth, Romantic poetry and Irish folklore; through his undergraduate years in which he built his intellect out of books; to prison, where his friends supplied him with literature which saved his sanity; to his final years in Paris where he consoled himself with old favourites such as Flaubert and Balzac. Fresh, utterly engaging and wholly original, Oscar's Books is an entirely new kind of biography.

Author : Paul Fortunato
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135860950

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Modernist Aesthetics and Consumer Culture in the Writings of Oscar Wilde by Paul Fortunato Pdf

Oscar Wilde was a consumer modernist. His modernist aesthetics drove him into the heart of the mass culture industries of 1890s London, particularly the journalism and popular theatre industries. Wilde was extremely active in these industries: as a journalist at the Pall Mall Gazette; as magazine editor of the Women’s World; as commentator on dress and design through both of these; and finally as a fabulously popular playwright. Because of his desire to impact a mass audience, the primary elements of Wilde’s consumer aesthetic were superficial ornament and ephemeral public image – both of which he linked to the theatrical. This concern with the surface and with the ephemeral was, ironically, a foundational element of what became twentieth-century modernism – thus we can call Wilde’s aesthetic a consumer modernism, a root and branch of modernism that was largely erased.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1907
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1216656

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The Writings of Oscar Wilde by Anonim Pdf

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 1112 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1840225505

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The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde Pdf

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 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. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. His essays - in particular De Profundis- and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range. His other essays and poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century.

Author : Nicholas Frankel
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789144222

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The Invention of Oscar Wilde by Nicholas Frankel Pdf

“One should either wear a work of art, or be a work of art,” Oscar Wilde once declared. In The Invention of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel explores Wilde’s self-creation as a “work of art” and a carefully constructed cultural icon. Frankel takes readers on a journey through Wilde’s inventive, provocative life, from his Irish origins—and their public erasure—through his challenges to traditional concepts of masculinity and male sexuality, his marriage and his affairs with young men, including his great love Lord Alfred Douglas, to his criminal conviction and final years of exile in France. Along the way, Frankel takes a deep look at Wilde’s writings, paradoxical wit, and intellectual convictions.

Author : Robert N. Keane
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : STANFORD:36105114362010

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Oscar Wilde by Robert N. Keane Pdf

Wide-ranging in scope, this group of essays, revised after their first exposure at Hofstra University in April 2000 provides an entry-point to fruitful inquiries of the complex and often controversial figure of Oscar Wilde and his diverse literary oeuvre.