Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 42,84 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 : 19,39 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 : 19,13 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 : 15,61 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 : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Wordsworth Editions
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 38,25 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781853264535
Oscar Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure.
Author : Maria Leach
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 40,90 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 : Simon and Schuster
Page : 605 pages
File Size : 41,75 MB
Release : 2013-08-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1627933654
Collected her in one omnibus edition are Oscar Wilde's most important works including The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, and The Canterville Ghost. These works of poetry, fiction, drama, and prose encompass Wilde's entire career and they display his range of style and wit. Wilde is one of the most important writers in the history of the English language. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.
Author : Nicholas Frankel
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 15,13 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.
Author : Aaron Ben-Ze'ev
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 22,39 MB
Release : 2019-06-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 022663406X
Is love best when it is fresh? For many, the answer is a resounding “yes.” The intense experiences that characterize new love are impossible to replicate, leading to wistful reflection and even a repeated pursuit of such ecstatic beginnings. Aaron Ben-Ze’ev takes these experiences seriously, but he’s also here to remind us of the benefits of profound love—an emotion that can only develop with time. In The Arc of Love, he provides an in-depth, philosophical account of the experiences that arise in early, intense love—sexual passion, novelty, change—as well as the benefits of cultivating long-term, profound love—stability, development, calmness. Ben-Ze’ev analyzes the core of emotions many experience in early love and the challenges they encounter, and he offers pointers for weathering these challenges. Deploying the rigorous analysis of a philosopher, but writing clearly and in an often humorous style with an eye to lived experience, he takes on topics like compromise, commitment, polyamory, choosing a partner, online dating, and when to say “I love you.” Ultimately, Ben-Ze’ev assures us, while love is indeed best when fresh, if we tend to it carefully, it can become more delicious and nourishing even as time marches on.
Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,37 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.
