description: "I treated art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction." Even as he celebrated the artificial and raised frivolity to an art form, Oscar Wilde was creating a new vocabulary of artistic expression-one that was witty and elegant and genuinely subversive in its assault on moral imperatives.
language: English
title: The Viking Portable Library: Oscar Wilde
titlecomplete: The Viking Portable Library: Oscar Wilde
genres: Essays, Drama, Plays, Poetry, Literature, Horror, Classics, Anthologies, Irish Literature, Fiction
ratings_count: 241
publisher: Random House Value Publishing