Oscar Wilde : the major works /
Wilde, Oscar,1854-1900,author.
Murray, Isobel.
Oxford : Oxford University Press,
2008.
Overview:  The classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century-a true literary sensation-with an introduction by cyber-author William Gibson.  The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century.  Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing is now frequently labeled Borgesian.  Umberto Eco's international bestseller, The Name of the Rose, is, on one level, an elaborate improvisation on Borges' fiction "The Library," which American readers first encountered in the original 1962 New Directions publication of Labyrinths.  This new edition of Labyrinths, the classic representative selection of Borges' writing edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby (in translations by themselves and others), includes the text of the original edition (as augmented in 1964) as well as Irby's biographical and critical essay, a poignant tribute by Andre Maurois, and a chronology of the author's life.  Borges enthusiast William Gibson has contributed a new introduction bringing Borges' influence and importance into the twenty-first century.
Originally published: 1989. First published, with revisions, as an Oxford World Classics paperback 2000.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 636-638).
Introduction -- Acknowledgements -- Chronology -- Note on the text -- Fiction: -- Lord Arthur Savile's crime -- Happy Prince -- Devoted friend -- Picture of Dorian Gray -- Critical Dialogues: -- Decay of lying -- Critic as artist part 1 -- Critic as artist part 2 -- Plays: -- Salome -- Lady Windermere's fan -- Ideal husband -- Importance of being earnest -- Poems: -- Harlot's house -- Sphinx -- Ballad of reading gaol -- Poems In Prose: -- Artist -- Disciple -- House of judgment -- Aphorisms: -- Few maxims for the instruction of the over-educated phrases and philosophies for the use of the young -- Notes -- Further reading.
Overview:  The classic by Latin America's finest writer of the twentieth century-a true literary sensation-with an introduction by cyber-author William Gibson.  The groundbreaking trans-genre work of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986) has been insinuating itself into the structure, stance, and very breath of world literature for well over half a century.  Multi-layered, self-referential, elusive, and allusive writing is now frequently labeled Borgesian.  Umberto Eco's international bestseller, The Name of the Rose, is, on one level, an elaborate improvisation on Borges' fiction "The Library," which American readers first encountered in the original 1962 New Directions publication of Labyrinths.  This new edition of Labyrinths, the classic representative selection of Borges' writing edited by Donald A. Yates and James E. Irby (in translations by themselves and others), includes the text of the original edition (as augmented in 1964) as well as Irby's biographical and critical essay, a poignant tribute by Andre Maurois, and a chronology of the author's life.  Borges enthusiast William Gibson has contributed a new introduction bringing Borges' influence and importance into the twenty-first century.
English drama