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The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674248678
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-17 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An innovative new edition of nine classic short stories from one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era. “I cannot think other than in stories,” Oscar Wilde once confessed to his friend André Gide. In this new selection of his short fiction, Wilde’s gifts as a storyteller are on full display, accompanied by informative facing-page annotations from Wilde biographer and scholar Nicholas Frankel. A wide-ranging introduction brings readers into the world from which the author drew inspiration. Each story in the collection brims with Wilde’s trademark wit, style, and sharp social criticism. Many are reputed to have been written for children, although Wilde insisted this was not true and that his stories would appeal to all “those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.” “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” stands alongside Wilde’s comic masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest, while other stories—including “The Happy Prince,” the tale of a young ruler who had never known sorrow, and “The Nightingale and the Rose,” the story of a nightingale who sacrifices herself for true love—embrace the theme of tragic, forbidden love and are driven by an undercurrent of seriousness, even despair, at the repressive social and sexual values of Wilde’s day. Like his later writings, Wilde’s stories are a sweeping indictment of the society that would imprison him for his homosexuality in 1895, five years before his death at the age of forty-six. Published here in the form in which Victorian readers first encountered them, Wilde’s short stories contain much that appeals to modern readers of vastly different ages and temperaments. They are the perfect distillation of one of the Victorian era’s most remarkable writers.

The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486121860
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (861 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-04-19 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complete texts of "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories," "Poems in Prose," and "The Portrait of Mr. W. H."

Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1911 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Shorter Fiction of Oscar Wilde

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 290 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Complete Shorter Fiction of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1979 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Oscar Wilde’s Stories for All Ages

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007342489
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde’s Stories for All Ages written by Oscar Wilde and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-10-15 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the world’s best loved presenters meets one of the world’s greatest authors in this beautiful selection of timeless, haunting stories. Vividly brought to life through abundant illustrations and Stephen’s masterly introductions, Oscar Wilde’s short stories are here made accessible to an entirely new generation.

Oscar Wilde's Short Stories

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9783526520917
Total Pages : 96 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde's Short Stories written by and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 96 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde ....

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (121 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde .... written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Stories for Children

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780750003025
Total Pages : 94 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Stories for Children written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1990 with total page 94 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Six classic tales for children by Oscar Wilde, illustrated by P.J. Lynch-winner of the Kate Greenaway Award, the Mother Goose Award, and three-time winner of the Christopher Award-and illustrator of The Steadfast Tin Soldier. P.J. Lynch's atmospheric artwork perfectly captures the timeless quality of Oscar Wilde's much loved tales for young readers. This timeless collection includes The Selfish Giant, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Devoted Friend, The Happy Prince, The Remarkable Rocket, and The Young King.

Built of Books

Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 142993509X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Built of Books written by Thomas Wright and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2010-04-27 with total page 384 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An entirely new kind of biography, Built of Books explores the mind and personality of Oscar Wilde through his taste in books This intimate account of Oscar Wilde's life and writings is richer, livelier, and more personal than any book available about the brilliant writer, revealing a man who built himself out of books. His library was his reality, the source of so much that was vital to his life. A reader first, his readerly encounters, out of all of life's pursuits, are seen to be as significant as his most important relationships with friends, family, or lovers. Wilde's library, which Thomas Wright spent twenty years reading, provides the intellectual (and emotional) climate at the core of this deeply engaging portrait. One of the book's happiest surprises is the story of the author's adventure reading Wilde's library. Reminiscent of Jorge Luis Borges's fictional hero who enters Cervantes's mind by saturating himself in the culture of sixteenth-century Spain, Wright employs Wilde as his own Virgilian guide to world literature. We come to understand how reading can be an extremely sensual experience, producing a physical as well as a spiritual delight.

Oscar Wilde

Author : Matthew Sturgis
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0525656367
Total Pages : 865 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (256 download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde written by Matthew Sturgis and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2021-10-12 with total page 865 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fullest, most textural, most accurate—most human—account of Oscar Wilde's unique and dazzling life—based on extensive new research and newly discovered materials, from Wilde's personal letters and transcripts of his first trial to newly uncovered papers of his early romantic (and dangerous) escapades and the two-year prison term that shattered his soul and his life. "Simply the best modern biography of Wilde." —Evening Standard Drawing on material that has come to light in the past thirty years, including newly discovered letters, documents, first draft notebooks, and the full transcript of the libel trial, Matthew Sturgis meticulously portrays the key events and influences that shaped Oscar Wilde's life, returning the man "to his times, and to the facts," giving us Wilde's own experience as he experienced it. Here, fully and richly portrayed, is Wilde's Irish childhood; a dreamy, aloof boy; a stellar classicist at boarding school; a born entertainer with a talent for comedy and a need for an audience; his years at Oxford, a brilliant undergraduate punctuated by his reckless disregard for authority . . . his arrival in London, in 1878, "already noticeable everywhere" . . . his ten-year marriage to Constance Lloyd, the father of two boys; Constance unwittingly welcoming young men into the household who became Oscar's lovers, and dying in exile at the age of thirty-nine . . . Wilde's development as a playwright. . . becoming the high priest of the aesthetic movement; his successes . . . his celebrity. . . and in later years, his irresistible pull toward another—double—life, in flagrant defiance and disregard of England's strict sodomy laws ("the blackmailer's charter"); the tragic story of his fall that sent him to prison for two years at hard labor, destroying his life and shattering his soul.

The Essential Oscar Wilde

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1627933654
Total Pages : 335 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 335 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Union Square & Co.
ISBN 13 : 1435173120
Total Pages : 327 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book The Picture of Dorian Gray written by Oscar Wilde and published by Union Square & Co.. This book was released on 2023-10-17 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When handsome young Dorian Gray sees a painter’s stunning portrait of him, he is transfixed by its reflection of his own beauty. He is also troubled by the knowledge that the image in the painting will remain forever youthful and handsome while he himself will grow older and less desirable. He wishes aloud that the roles were reversed, saying that he would give his soul if only the painting would suffer the ravages of time and he were to remain forever young. From that point on, Dorian lives a life of hedonistic indulgence, knowing that only the painting will show his moral corruption.

The Stories of Oscar Wilde

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (517 download)

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Download or read book The Stories of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 9780451531070
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2008-10-07 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The master of wit and irony Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales, as Oscar Wilde himself explained, were written “partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.”

The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486452166
Total Pages : 210 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2006-09-08 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective yarns and comedies of manners. It includes the complete texts of "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories," "Poems in Prose," and the critical essay "The Portrait of Mr. W. H." Originally published in the late 1880s and early 1890s, these tales predate Wilde's fame as a dramatist. When he wrote them, he was best known among fashionable London society as a drawing-room raconteur. Many of the character types now familiar from his comedies first emerged in these stories, along with his gifted uses of parody, melodrama, paradox, and irony. Even more significantly, they reflect the author's preoccupation with opposites—idealistic love and desire, art and life, sincerity and artifice, innocence and sin, altruism and greed, and honesty and deceit—offering captivating expressions of the themes that dominated Wilde's life and thought.

Oscar Wilde - Stories for Children

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : The O'Brien Press
ISBN 13 : 1847177468
Total Pages : 79 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (471 download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde - Stories for Children written by Oscar Wilde and published by The O'Brien Press. This book was released on 2014-11-07 with total page 79 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A beautifully illustrated collection of Oscar Wilde's favourite children's tales known and loved throughout the world. It includes: - The Happy Prince - The Selfish Giant - The Nightingale and the Rose This gorgeous production brings Wilde's magical stories to a whole new generation.

The Happy Prince

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500651551
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (515 download)

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Download or read book The Happy Prince written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2018-02-13 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a town where a lot of poor people suffer and where there are a lot of miseries, 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 sorrow, for he lived in a palace where sorrow isn't allowed to enter. Viewing various scenes of people suffering in poverty from his tall monument, the Happy Prince asks the swallow to take the ruby from his hilt, the sapphires from his eyes, and the golden leaf covering his body to give to the poor. As the winter comes and the Happy Prince is stripped of all of his beauty, his lead heart breaks when the swallow dies as a result of his selfless deeds and severe cold. The statue is then brought down from the pillar and melted in a furnace leaving behind the broken heart and the dead swallow and they are thrown in a dust heap. These are taken up to heaven by an angel that has deemed them the two most precious things in the city. This is affirmed by God and they live forever in his city of gold and garden of paradise.