Oscar Wilde

The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

Herausgeber: Blaisdell, Bob

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Produktbeschreibung

This paperback gift edition of the renowned poet and playwright's epigrams and witticisms features hundreds of quips from Wilde's personal letters and conversations as well as his fiction, essays, lectures, and plays.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Dover Publications Inc.
• Green ed.
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. August 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 145mm x 141mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 284g
• ISBN-13: 9780486480923
• ISBN-10: 0486480925
• Artikelnr.: 32819476

Autorenporträt

Poet and playwright Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) remains best known for his comedies of the 1890s, including The Importance of Being Earnest, and for his tragic imprisonment and untimely death. Bob Blaisdell is a Professor of English at the City University of New York's Kingsborough College and the editor of many Dover Thrift Editions and other books, including the forthcoming New York: The Big Apple Quote Book.

Inhaltsangabe

I. Rules to Live By II. Men versus Women III. Definitions IV. Art with a
Capital A V. The Ages VI. Writers and Writing VII. Distinguishing
Characteristics VIII. Love, Friendship and Self-Knowledge IX. Education X.
The Mask of Style XI. Civilized Society XII. America and Americans XIII.
Marriage XIV. Suffering and Imprisonment XV. Talk XVI. The End of Wisdom