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Excerpt from The Writings of Oscar Wilde: His Life, With a Critical Estimate of His Writings The reaction which has so steadily set in within the last year or two as regards the literary remains of Oscar Wilde calls persistently for a complete edition of his works. The verdict of the posterity of to-day - that alien homage which the prophet unhonored in his own country receives from the stranger abroad - has reacted upon the present gen cration at home and has replaced Wilde's statue on that pedestal in the domestic Pantheon whence it had fallen, as men deemed forever. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.