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  • de Profundis - Oscar Wilde
    Oscar Wilde
    . . . Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain. The paralysing immobility of a life every circumstance of which is regulated after an unchangeable pattern, so that we eat and drink and lie down a...
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  • de Profundis
    Oscar Wilde
    . . . Suffering is one very long moment. We cannot divide it by seasons. We can only record its moods, and chronicle their return. With us time itself does not progress. It revolves. It seems to circle round one centre of pain. The paralysing immobility of a life every circumstance of which is regulated after an unchangeable pattern, so that we eat and drink and lie down a...
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  • The Importance of Being Earnest
    Oscar Wilde
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  • The Critic as Artist (Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything)
    Oscar Wilde
    'Criticism is itself an art.' This is one of the singular arguments in what must be one of Oscar Wilde’s most compelling critical dialogues ever published. The Critic as Artist explores Wilde’s defense of criticism through sharp, witty dialogue and riveting, thoughtful arguments. This theoretical dialogue uses prime examples to discuss many elements, such as criticism as an ar...
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  • The Importance of Being Earnest A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
    Oscar Wilde
    Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s.As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States...
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  • A House of Pomegranates
    Oscar Wilde
    It was the night before the day fixed for his coronation, and the young King was sitting alone in his beautiful chamber. His courtiers had all taken their leave of him, bowing their heads to the ground, according to the ceremonious usage of the day, and h ...
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  • A House of Pomegranates
    Oscar Wilde
    It was the night before the day fixed for his coronation, and the young King was sitting alone in his beautiful chamber. His courtiers had all taken their leave of him, bowing their heads to the ground, according to the ceremonious usage of the day, and h ...
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  • The Poems Of Oscar Wilde V1
    Oscar Wilde
    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world’s literature in affordable, high quality, modern edit...
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    27,02 €

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    A truly classic gothic horror novel for the ages. A Picture of Dorian Gray has captivated generations of readers with its ethical and artistic questions. What are the true costs of excess? What happens when an artist cares more for his artistic vision than his fellow man? What price should one pay for beauty? ...
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    10,90 €

  • The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
    Oscar Wilde
    The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde includes the two definitive story collections The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891).This volume collects exquisite and poignant tales of true beauty, selfless love, generosity, loyalty, brilliant wit, and moral aestheticism, such as 'The Birthday of the Infanta,' 'The Selfish Giant,' The Nightingale an...
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    28,48 €

  • The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
    Oscar Wilde
    The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde includes the two definitive story collections The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891).This volume collects exquisite and poignant tales of true beauty, selfless love, generosity, loyalty, brilliant wit, and moral aestheticism, such as 'The Birthday of the Infanta,' 'The Selfish Giant,' The Nightingale an...
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    15,55 €

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is a masterpiece of aestheticism and a moral parable.Dorian Gray is a young man of impossible physical beauty whose portrait -- painted by the artist Basil Hallward -- becomes connected on an occult level with the workings of his soul. Drawn into a corrupt and sensual life by the dissolute Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian remains young and be...
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  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde is a masterpiece of aestheticism and a moral parable.Dorian Gray is a young man of impossible physical beauty whose portrait -- painted by the artist Basil Hallward -- becomes connected on an occult level with the workings of his soul. Drawn into a corrupt and sensual life by the dissolute Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian remains young and be...
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    15,20 €

  • Plays, Prose Writings & Poems
    Oscar Wilde
    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. Pomona Press are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. ...
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    44,32 €

  • De Profundis by Oscar Wilde, Fiction, Literary, Classics, Literary Collections
    Oscar Wilde
    De Profundis (Latin: 'from the depths') is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, to 'Bosie' (Lord Alfred Douglas).De Profundis does not resemble any of the other works that made Wilde famous; and it’s a work that often seems to make critics uncomfortable. Perhaps justly so: in the end it’s a response to Wilde’s imprisonment for homosexuality. ...
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  • The Soul of Man by Oscar Wilde, Fiction, Literary
    Oscar Wilde
    This is Oscar Wilde’s long -- and remarkable -- essay on socialism. It’s not what you’d think, if you know just a little of his biography. Wilde foresaw -- from his time, long before it’d been tried as a principle of governance -- that socialism was a mistaken approach; he saw the mistakes that’d come from it, the consequences that’d befall the world and people generally long b...
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  • Intentions by Oscar Wilde, Literary Collections, Essays, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
    Oscar Wilde
    'The Decay of Lying' -- from 1889 -- is an essay couched as a dialogue that Wilde once called it a 'trumpet against the gate of dullness.' The substance revolves around Wilde’s Aestheticism, and he argues (through one character and another) that Art is superior to Nature. . . .'Pen, Pencil and Poison' -- from 1889 -- is a biographical essay on the notorious writer, murderer, an...
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    11,29 €

  • The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde, Fiction, Classics, Literary
    Oscar Wilde
    The tale, like many of Wilde’s, is rich with allusion, but ends as sentimental romance. The Canterville Chase has all the accouterments of a traditional haunted house. Descriptions of the wainscoting, the library panelled in black oak and the armor in the hallway characterize the Gothic setting. Wilde mixes the macabre with comedy, juxtaposing devices from traditional English g...
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    9,71 €

  • Teleny, or the Reverse of the Medal
    Oscar Wilde
    The homoerotic novel Teleny is an important antithesis to the prudish idealism of the neo-classic and neo-romantic lyric love poetry of the fin du siecle. It is a work of unmasking the cynical double moral standards of the Victorian era: The love of Camille and Teleny is shattered by social reprisals. The book was published in 1893 in 200 copies by Leonard Smithers who praised ...
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    17,70 €

  • The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
    Oscar Wilde
    'The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde' is as the titlewould suggest a collection of whimiscal tales by Oscar Wilde. Thiscollections includes the following short stories: The Happy Prince, TheNightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, TheRemarkable Rocket, The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, TheFisherman and his Soul, and The Star-child. Readers...
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    8,44 €

  • Salomé
    Oscar Wilde
    Originally published in French, ’Salomé’ is Oscar Wilde’s 1896 dramatization of the biblical story of Salome, the step-daughter of Herod who danced before Herod and in so doing wins the granting of any wish that Herod may be able to fulfill. Salome asks for the head of John the Baptist. Fans of Wilde will delight in the dramatization of this biblical story. ...
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  • Epigrams, Phrases, and Philosophies
    Oscar Wilde
    Oscar Wilde---the famous Irish poet, author, playwright and raconteur---was born in Dublin, October 15, 1856 and died in Paris, November 30, 1900. He wrote The Birthday of the Infanta, Vera, Poems, The Picture of Dorian Gray; The Happy Prince and Other Tales, Guido Ferranti, The Duchess of Padua, Intentions, Essays, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crimes and Other Stories, Lady Windermer...
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  • Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime
    Oscar Wilde
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It was Lady Windermere’s last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual. Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker’s Levee in their stars and ribands, all the pretty ...
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  • Poems
    Oscar Wilde
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyes See nothing save their own unlovely woe, Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know, - But that the roar of thy Democracies, Thy reigns of...
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  • Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde
    Oscar Wilde
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - With the possible exceptions of the Greek Anthology, the 'Golden Treasury' and those which bear the name of E. V. Lucas, no selections of poetry or prose have ever given complete satisfaction to anyone except t...
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  • Essays and Lectures
    Oscar Wilde
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - HISTORICAL criticism nowhere occurs as an isolated fact in the civilisation or literature of any people. It is part of that complex working towards freedom which may be described as the revolt against authority...
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  • Intentions
    Oscar Wilde
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - CYRIL (coming in through the open window from the terrace). My dear Vivian, don’t coop yourself up all day in the library. It is a perfectly lovely afternoon. The air is exquisite. There is a mist upon the wood...
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  • The Picture of Dorian Gray
    Oscar Wilde
    Purchase one of 1st World Library’s Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - [3] The studio was filled with the rich odor of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate p...
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  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales by Oscar Wilde, Fiction, Literary, Classics
    Oscar Wilde
    "The Happy Prince" In a town where a lot of poor people suffer, a swallow who was left behind after his flock flew off to Egypt for the winter meets the statue of the late "Happy Prince", who in reality has never experienced true happiness. Viewing various scenes of people suffering in poverty from his tall monument, the Happy Prince asks the swallow to take the ruby from his h...
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  • De Profundis
    Oscar Wilde
    De Profundis is a letter written by Oscar Wilde during his imprisonment in Reading Gaol, addressed to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The letter is a deeply personal reflection on Wilde’s life, his relationship with Douglas, and his experiences in prison. In it, Wilde explores themes of suffering, redemption, and the transformative power of art. He also reflects on his own faul...
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