The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

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Uso il termine "appassionanti" perché non si può fare a meno di schierarsi con Wilde contro la disumanità con cui i carcerati vengono trattati (la cui descrizione è brutale e disarmante) e condividere l'acredine dell'autore. Apparently the Victorian's were easily horrified, and I found some of the examples of his debauchery to be head scratchers. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. I suppose it comes from the fact that none of us can stand other people having the same faults as ourselves. Unconsciously he defines for me the lines of a fresh school, a school that is to have in it all the passion of the romantic spirit, all the perfection of the spirit that is Greek.

Penna, matita e veleno", " Il critico come artista", " La verità delle maschere", " Il ritratto di Mr. A comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Oscar Wilde together with a chronological table of his life and work are also included. I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world.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. Those who are faithful know only the trivial side of love: it is the faithless who know love’s tragedies. Oscar Wilde, born in the 19th Century and dying in the new 20th Century - was truly an artist of the 20th Century. 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. With introduction by Vyvyan Holland on the history of De Profundis and how it only came to be fully published in 1949.

For all ebook purchases, you will be prompted to create an account or login with your existing HarperCollins username and password. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories, and one novel. Your rank and wealth, Harry; my brains, such as they are—my art, whatever it may be worth; Dorian Gray’s good looks—we shall all suffer for what the gods have given us, suffer terribly.Parker has brought out the drinks, and if you stay any longer in this glare, you will be quite spoiled, and Basil will never paint you again. 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. This volume contained everything that Oscar Wilde ever wrote from his only novel, to his short stories, poems, essays, plays and letters. With this beautiful Collectible Edition, you can enjoy Wilde’s enduring literary legacy again and again.