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De Profundis And Other Prison Writings by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
"De Profundis and Other Prison Writings" is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in "Penguin Classics", edited and introduced by Colm Toibin. At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most recent stage success, "An Ideal Husband". But by May of ...Show more
In Praise Of Disobedience - The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde
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Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies | Reading Level: near fine
Works of Wilde's annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright. The Soul of Man Under Socialism draw on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest works in prose -- the year he came into maturity as an ...Show more
In Praise of Disobedience - The Soul of Man under Socialism and Other Writings by Oscar Wilde; Neil Bartlett (Introduction by)
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Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
Works of Wilde's annus mirabilis of 1891 in one volume, with an introduction by renowned British playwright. The Soul of Man Under Socialism draw on works from a single miraculous year in which Oscar Wilde published the larger part of his greatest works in prose -- the year he came into maturity as an ...Show more
Lies (Vintage Minis) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
From disguises and impostors to locked doors and deadly secrets, Wilde was obsessed with lying as an art form rich with delights- and dangers.Selected from Wilde's essays, plays and prose including The Picture of Dorian Gray.VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by ...Show more
Oscariana: Epigrams by Oscar Wilde; Matthew Sturgis (Foreword by)
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Category: LGBTI & Queer Studies
In 1895 Arthur Humphreys - a director of Hatchards and a friend of Oscar Wilde - printed fifty copies of a small eighty-eight-page compendium of Wilde's epigrams, culled from his published works. It was titled Oscariana. The initial selection had been made by Wilde's wife, Constance, but Wilde had not b ...Show more
The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Poetry
This poem - originally published anonymously, written after Wilde's two year's hard labour in Reading prison - is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. The Ballad of Reading Gaol follows the inmate through his final three weeks, as he stares at the sky an ...Show more
The Decay of Lying (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: General | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound writings on aesthetics, in which he proposes that criticism is the highest form of creation and that lying, the telling o ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
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Category: General Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a man who makes a devilish pact never to grow old. Dorian Gray remains forever young, indulging in unspeakable pleasures while his portrait bears the mark of his corrupt existence. A beautifully decadent tale of the destructive allure of perpetual ...Show more
The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection by Oscar Wilde; Nicholas Frankel (Editor)
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
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, accom ...Show more
The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Gay & Bi Male Fiction
Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted "The Picture of Dorian Gray" for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores material, including instances of graphic homosexual content, removed by the novel's first editor, who ...Show more
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