Epigrams of Oscar Wilde


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Oscar Wilde's well-turned phrases and spontaneous insults still cause much amusement and admiration. This book contains quotes most of which are taken from Wilde's plays, novels and essays.




Epigrams & Aphorisms


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Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom


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Amusing, thought-provoking epigrams, aphorisms, and other jests from the plays, essays, and lively conversation of Oscar Wilde offer a feast of humorous and profound quips. Nearly 400 quotes.




The Epigrams of Oscar Wilde


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Epigrams


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First published in 1905, this collection contains aphorisms and epigrams from fourteen of Oscar Wilde's works, including his comedies, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and The Soul of Man Unter Socialism.




Greek Epigram in Reception


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Tracing the evolution and reception history of a collection of ancient Greek epigrams from the early nineteenth to twentieth century, the volume analyses the rhetoric which writers and translators brought to the text, highlighting the after effects of this cultural war on the interpretations of Ancient Greece in British print culture.










Oscariana


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In 1895 Arthur Humphreys - a director of Hatchards and a friend of Oscar Wilde - printed fifty copies of a small eighty-eight-page compendium of Wilde's epigrams, culled from his published works. It was titled Oscariana. The initial selection had been made by Wilde's wife, Constance, but Wilde had not been entirely satisfied with it, and subsequently revised the whole text. A pirated edition of a further two hundred copies of the book was produced in 1903, but otherwise it has remained out of print - until now. This new publication of Oscarianais a facsimile of this booklet, and the only selection of Wilde's wit endorsed and chosen by the author himself.