Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 18,42 MB
Release : 2014-05-05
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0486168425
"I have put my genius into my life," declared Oscar Wilde, adding, "I have put only my talent into my works." This gift edition of the renowned poet and playwright's aphorisms draws upon both realms. Hundreds of sparkling jests and epigrams include quips from Wilde's personal letters and conversations as well as his fiction, essays, lectures, and plays. The most comprehensive collection of Wilde's witticisms, it will delight both longtime fans and new readers.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 67 pages
File Size : 47,22 MB
Release : 2012-03-01
Category : Reference
ISBN : 0486111008
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.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 25,89 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Wit and humor
ISBN : 9780880299459
Oscar Wilde is one of the most quoted and quotable men in history. He once boasted that he could talk spontaneously on any subject, a claim effortlessly borne out by the range and scope of the examples collected in this book. It is an entertaining, instructive, and revealing look at a man who is unlikely ever to be forgotten. "Oscar Wilde," wrote Richard Ellmann, "we have only to hear the great name to anticipate that what will be quoted as his will surprise and delight us. His wit is an agent of renewal, as pertinent now as a hundred years ago."
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 14,2 MB
Release : 1959-01-01
Category : Humor
ISBN : 9780486206028
More than 1,000 ripostes, paradoxes, wisecracks: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes," "I can resist everything except temptation," etc.
Author : Maria Leach
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 21,44 MB
Release : 2011-04-04
Category : Humor
ISBN : 1843176866
I Can Resist Everything Except Temptation is a celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult - Oscar Wilde.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 94 pages
File Size : 47,86 MB
Release : 1997-10-02
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 0141905220
'I have nothing to declare', Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius'. A socialite, a wit, a man who flaunted convention and was unafraid to shock, Oscar Wilde was a great writer and a great man. This new collection of wit and wisdom demonstrates the brilliance of his vision, the audacity of his style. Such is the scope of the material, it brings to life the Wilde of great feeling as well as the Wilde of great art.
Author : Mark Twain
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 44,75 MB
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 048648923X
"Familiarity breeds contempt — and children." "When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear." "Heaven for climate. Hell for company." This attractive paperback gift edition of the renowned American humorist's epigrams and witticisms features hundreds of quips on life, love, history, culture, travel, and other topics from his fiction, essays, letters, and autobiography.
Author : Peter Ackroyd
Publisher : Penguin Books, Limited (UK)
Page : 185 pages
File Size : 31,27 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Authors, Irish
ISBN : 9780140171112
Oscar Wilde never wrote a last testament during his isolation in Paris. This book takes the known facts about Oscar Wilde and converts them into a fictional portrait of the artist and memoir of a life of great contrast - a career which ended with a catastrophic fall from public favour.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 45,77 MB
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780231104562
More than 1,000 quotations from Wilde on subjects from absinthe to Zola as well as selections from personal letters filled with poignant remarks on his life and the human condition.
Author : Nicholas Frankel
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 40,46 MB
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1789144221
“One should either wear a work of art, or be a work of art,” Oscar Wilde once declared. In The Invention of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel explores Wilde’s self-creation as a “work of art” and a carefully constructed cultural icon. Frankel takes readers on a journey through Wilde’s inventive, provocative life, from his Irish origins—and their public erasure—through his challenges to traditional concepts of masculinity and male sexuality, his marriage and his affairs with young men, including his great love Lord Alfred Douglas, to his criminal conviction and final years of exile in France. Along the way, Frankel takes a deep look at Wilde’s writings, paradoxical wit, and intellectual convictions.
