Oscar Wilde - The Major Works
by Oscar Wilde
2021-01-06 16:58:31
Oscar Wilde - The Major Works
by Oscar Wilde
2021-01-06 16:58:31
This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wilde''s poetry and prose short stories, plays, critical dialogues an...
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This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wilde''s poetry and prose short stories, plays, critical dialogues and his only novel - to give the essence of hiswork and thinking.Oscar Wilde''s dramatic private life has sometimes threatened to overshadow his great literary achievements. His talent was prodigious: the author of brilliant social comedies, fairy stories, critical dialogues, poems, and a novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.In addition to Dorian Gray, this volume represents all these genres, including such works as Lady Windermere''s Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest, ''The Happy Prince'', ''The Critic as Artist'', and ''The Ballad of Reading Gaol''.
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