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 Quotable Oscar Wilde

Author: Running Press
Publisher: RP Minis
ISBN: 0762449829
Category : Humor
Languages : en
Pages : 208

Book Description
"I must die as I lived, beyond my means." Arguably the most quoted man in history, and certainly in his day, this enormous miniature collection is filled with Oscar Wildes' most notorious and witty sayings. Organized into five neat sections useful for any situation, this book is perfect for either enjoying in small bites or devouring in one sitting. Featuring a biography, quotes, a poem and short story, it is a must have for Wilde lovers and novices alike.

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 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.

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 Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Bantam Classics
ISBN: 0307757684
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 594

Book Description
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.

Oscar Wilde's Society Plays

Author: Michael Y. Bennett
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN: 9781137410924
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
As the first collection of essays about Oscar Wilde's comedies, the contributors re-evaluate Oscar Wilde's society plays as 'comedies of manners" to see whether this is actually an apt way to read Wilde's most emblematic plays. Focusing on both the context and the texts, the collection locates Wilde both in his social and literary contexts.

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."

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.