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Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by OSCAR WILDE
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection | Reading Level: very good
Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture o ...Show more
Nightingale and the Rose Del Kathryn Barton by Del Kathryn Barton (Illustrator); Oscar Wilde
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Category: Art galleries/museums, collections
THIS 9 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: Best Known Works of Oscar Wilde, by Oscar Wilde. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 076613010X.
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Little Black Classics 119 | Reading Level: very good
"Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. "
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits, and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in t ...Show more
Picture of Dorian Gray (Word Cloud Classics) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Word Cloud Classics | Reading Level: General Adult
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a familiar story of greed, sin, and arrogance. A young man, infatuated with his own handsomeness and youth as depicted in a perfect portrait, makes a bargain he will come to regret. No one can save him from his appetite for pleasure and his awful fate--not the man who idoli ...Show more
Selfish Giant (HB) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Picture Books
The children always played in the Giant's garden, but when he returned after years away, he said, 'What are you doing here?' and the children fled. 'My own garden is my own garden,' said the Giant; 'anyone can understand that, and I will allow nobody to play in it but myself.' Oscar Wilde's classic tale ...Show more
The Decay of Lying (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Great Ideas | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound writings on aesthetics, in which he proposes that criticism is the highest form of creation and that lying, the telling o ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics/Collections | Reading Level: very good
A haunting, magical fairy-tale collection, in which Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) The Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, The Selfish Giant who learned to love little children and The Star Child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines with p ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good-near fine
In this haunting, magical fairytale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little children and the Star Child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines with poetr ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. Includes Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy and ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Penguin Black Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears th ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succès de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to sell his soul in exchange f ...Show more