The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

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Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Lord Henry went out to the garden and found Dorian Gray burying his face in the great cool lilac-blossoms, feverishly drinking in their perfume as if it had been wine. From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags on which he was lying, smoking, as was his custom, innumerable cigarettes, Lord Henry Wotton could just catch the gleam of the honey-sweet and honey-coloured blossoms of a laburnum, whose tremulous branches seemed hardly able to bear the burden of a beauty so flamelike as theirs; and now and then the fantastic shadows of birds in flight flitted across the long tussore-silk curtains that were stretched in front of the huge window, producing a kind of momentary Japanese effect, and making him think of those pallid, jade-faced painters of Tokyo who, through the medium of an art that is necessarily immobile, seek to convey the sense of swiftness and motion.

Known for his biting wit, and a plentitude of aphorisms, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. What the invention of oil-painting was to the Venetians, the face of Antinous was to late Greek sculpture, and the face of Dorian Gray will some day be to me. We take pride in offering a wide selection of used books, from classics to hidden gems, ensuring there’s something for every literary palate. Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices.

The sweep and dash of the brush on the canvas made the only sound that broke the stillness, except when, now and then, Hallward stepped back to look at his work from a distance. There is further proof that the developed scenario that Constance was reconstituted from was written by Wilde between 1897 and his death in 1900, rather than the 1894 George Alexander scenario which Merlin Holland quotes.

Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age. Dates are dates of first performance, which approximate better to the probable date of composition than dates of publication. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This has made bibliographical (and biographical) studies of unpublished work more difficult since they are widely dispersed, some in private ownership. Expurgated edition published 1905; suppressed portions 1913, expanded version in The Letters of Oscar Wilde (1962).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. Hanno comunque destato in me un discreto interesse, quanto bastava a non farmi interrompere la lettura. Next, came the poems; the reader isn’t a big fan of poetry and so some really didn’t resonate with them, but they read quickly.

Wilde talked in circles, saying the same thing in different ways and it felt like he added filler in to make them even longer than they really needed to be to fluff them up. Intentions' and 'The Decay of Lying' may not be ground breaking, but they deserve a read to better understand what he meant by some of his most famous (and misunderstood!Professional Packaging – I always use Top Quality packaging products to ensure you receive your item in the condition it was sent. This volume contained everything that Oscar Wilde ever wrote from his only novel, to his short stories, poems, essays, plays and letters. poi normale che le opere incompiute lascino invece l'amaro in bocca, vuoi per la monotonia (" Una tragedia fiorentina"), per l'insipidezza (" Constance o il signore e la signora Daventry") o per l'eccessiva enigmaticità (" La Sainte Courtisane"). A comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Oscar Wilde together with a chronological table of his life and work are also included.

We degenerate into hideous puppets, haunted by the memory of the passions of which we were too much afraid, and the exquisite temptations that we had not the courage to yield to. Don’t squander the gold of your days, listening to the tedious, trying to improve the hopeless failure, or giving away your life to the ignorant, the common, and the vulgar.When we meet—we do meet occasionally, when we dine out together, or go down to the Duke’s—we tell each other the most absurd stories with the most serious faces.