Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde
Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Drama History & Criticism, Nonfiction, History, Modern, 19th Century, Essays & Letters, Essays
| Author: | Oscar Wilde | ISBN: | 9781910749395 |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books | Publication: | October 24, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Notting Hill Editions | Language: | English |
| Author: | Oscar Wilde |
| ISBN: | 9781910749395 |
| Publisher: | New York Review Books |
| Publication: | October 24, 2017 |
| Imprint: | Notting Hill Editions |
| Language: | English |
This selection of Oscar Wilde’s writings provides a fresh perspective on his character and thinking. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these pieces show that beneath the trademark wit, Wilde was a deeply humane and visionary writer, as challenging today as he was in the late 1800s. This edition includes essays on interior design, prison reform, Shakespeare, the dramatic dialogue Decay of Lying and the seminal Soul of Man.
This selection of Oscar Wilde’s writings provides a fresh perspective on his character and thinking. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these pieces show that beneath the trademark wit, Wilde was a deeply humane and visionary writer, as challenging today as he was in the late 1800s. This edition includes essays on interior design, prison reform, Shakespeare, the dramatic dialogue Decay of Lying and the seminal Soul of Man.
