The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

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Yet only in recent years has Wilde’s large and diverse oeuvre been subjected to comprehensive textual editing.

When I lived in my studio apartment and found myself alone of an evening, I would sometimes make tea and cucumber sandwiches and curl up to re-read The Importance of Being Earnest. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 and died on the 30th November 1900. However, whatever was my motive—and it may have been pride, for I used to be very proud—I certainly struggled to the door.

Laughter is not at all a bad beginning for a friendship, and it is far the best ending for one, said the young lord, plucking another daisy. A portrait like this would set you far above all the young men in England, and make the old men quite jealous, if old men are ever capable of any emotion. pages, blue cloth; chipped dj Finally taken from the earliest manuscript, it is released to the public for the first time in its entirety, unexpurgated. Just turn your head a little more to the right, Dorian, like a good boy, said the painter, deep in his work and conscious only that a look had come into the lad’s face that he had never seen there before.

Discover the joy of reading with us, your trusted source for affordable books that do not compromise on quality. Expurgated edition published 1905; suppressed portions 1913, expanded version in The Letters of Oscar Wilde (1962).Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies.

But he suddenly started up, and closing his eyes, placed his fingers upon the lids, as though he sought to imprison within his brain some curious dream from which he feared he might awake. Of course, part of the joke is that Savile never questions (and we should never expect him to question) the accuracy of such a prediction from a dubious source, because then the ultimate joke of basing your actions on dubious sources, and the empty trendiness of the moneyed classes (and possibly their coldness to human suffering) would be undone. The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works, and is available in both hardback and this paperback edition. One can survive everything, nowadays, except death, and live down everything except a good reputation. Hanno comunque destato in me un discreto interesse, quanto bastava a non farmi interrompere la lettura.The Decay Of Lying" is an essay (presented as a dialogue) and, honestly, I'll probably need to give it another read and dissect it at my leisure at a later date because I was mostly in the wrong head-space when I read it. First American Printing Of The Complete, Unexpurgated Text, With Sheets And Dust Jacket Printed In Great Britain. The first one was a tell-all to the guy who put him in prison, and it was so open and honest and raw; so many emotions went through it and the reader couldn’t help but be encapsulated and engrossed in the story.