Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486111008
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 67

Book Description
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.

The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486168425
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 242

Book Description
"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.

The Wit of Oscar Wilde

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
ISBN: 9780880299459
Category : Wit and humor
Languages : en
Pages : 136

Book Description
Oscar Wilde is one of the most quoted and quotable men in history. He once boasted that he could talk spontaneously on any subject, a claim effortlessly borne out by the range and scope of the examples collected in this book. It is an entertaining, instructive, and revealing look at a man who is unlikely ever to be forgotten. "Oscar Wilde," wrote Richard Ellmann, "we have only to hear the great name to anticipate that what will be quoted as his will surprise and delight us. His wit is an agent of renewal, as pertinent now as a hundred years ago."

The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486206028
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 276

Book Description
More than 1,000 ripostes, paradoxes, wisecracks: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes," "I can resist everything except temptation," etc.

The Invention of Oscar Wilde

Author: Nicholas Frankel
Publisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 1789144221
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 287

Book Description
“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.

Oscar Wilde in Context

Author: Kerry Powell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107016134
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 437

Book Description
Concise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde's life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time.

The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486121860
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 210

Book Description
Complete texts of "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories," "Poems in Prose," and "The Portrait of Mr. W. H."

The Importance of Being Earnest

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: First Avenue Editions ™
ISBN: 1467756547
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 93

Book Description
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.

COLOUR OF IRELAND

Author: ROB. CROSS
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781785304606
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

Aphoristic Modernity

Author:
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004400060
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 293

Book Description
For the first time in scholarship, this essay collection interprets modernity through the literary micro-genres of the aphorism, the epigram, the maxim, and the fragment. Situating Friedrich Nietzsche and Oscar Wilde as forerunners of modern aphoristic culture, the collection analyses the relationship between aphoristic consciousness and literary modernism in the expanded purview of the long twentieth century, through the work of a wide range of authors, including Samuel Beckett, Max Beerbohm, Jorge Luis Borges, Katherine Mansfield, and Stevie Smith. From the romantic fragment to the tweet, Aphoristic Modernity offers a compelling exploration of the short form's pervasive presence both as a standalone artefact and as part of a larger textual and cultural matrix.