The Little Book Of Oscar Wilde

Author : Orange Hippo!
Publisher : Hachette UK
ISBN 13 : 1800690649
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Book of Oscar Wilde written by Orange Hippo! and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2020-11-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flamboyant and witty, Oscar Wilde was famous for being famous. The toast of late-nineteenth London society, he once boasted he could speak spontaneously on any subject, and his writings were as varied as his captivating conversation. One of the leading playwrights of his age, he also found fame as a poet, novelist and essayist. Of course, Wilde's literary success is bound up with the tragedy of his private life, and his very name evokes fascination. Including Wilde's funniest remarks and ripostes as well as deeper reflections, this collection of wit and wisdom will amuse, provoke and delight. 'There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.' Lord Henry in The Picture of Dorian Gray, 1890. 'Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.' Intentions, 'The Critic as Artist', 1891.

Author : Running Press
Publisher : RP Minis
ISBN 13 : 0762449829
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Quotable Oscar Wilde written by Running Press and published by RP Minis. This book was released on 2013-03-26 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I must die as I lived, beyond my means." Arguably the most quoted man in history, and certainly in his day, this enormous miniature collection is filled with Oscar Wildes' most notorious and witty sayings. Organized into five neat sections useful for any situation, this book is perfect for either enjoying in small bites or devouring in one sitting. Featuring a biography, quotes, a poem and short story, it is a must have for Wilde lovers and novices alike.

Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 142993509X
Total Pages : 384 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( 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.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0241251818
Total Pages : 64 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast written by Oscar Wilde and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2016-03-03 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as remarkable as oneself' Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. One of 46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946. Each book gives readers a taste of the Classics' huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts, battles and elephants.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486111008
Total Pages : 67 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom written by Oscar Wilde and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2012-03-01 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486168425
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-05-05 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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 :
ISBN 13 : 9780752531731
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Little Book of Sayings of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by . This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Thomas Wright
Publisher : Random House
ISBN 13 : 1446496104
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.07/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oscar's Books written by Thomas Wright and published by Random House. This book was released on 2013-11-30 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For Wilde, as for many people, reading could be as powerful and transformative an experience as falling in love. He devoured books, talked books, luxuriated in books and lavished books on his friends- they played, too, a vital part in his seductions of young men. Oscar's Books tells the story of Wilde's life through his reading, from his childhood in Dublin, where he was nurtured on Celtic myth, Romantic poetry and Irish folklore; through his undergraduate years in which he built his intellect out of books; to prison, where his friends supplied him with literature which saved his sanity; to his final years in Paris where he consoled himself with old favourites such as Flaubert and Balzac. Fresh, utterly engaging and wholly original, Oscar's Books is an entirely new kind of biography.

Author : Hippo! Orange
Publisher : Little Book Of
ISBN 13 : 9781911610496
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.9X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Little Book of Oscar Wilde: Wit and Wisdom to Live by written by Hippo! Orange and published by Little Book Of. This book was released on 2020-07-09 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of wit and wisdom includes Wilde's funniest remarks and ripostes as well as deeper reflections.

Author : Oscar Wilde
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780500651551
Total Pages : 48 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( 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.