Best-Loved Oscar Wilde
Publisher: The O'Brien Press; O'Brien Press, Limited, The
Published: 2015
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781322954462; 9781847177537; 9781847177292
Subjects: POETRY; General; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY; Literary; Poetry by individual poets; Biography: literary
Description: More than a selection of the writings of Ireland's foremost cultural figure of the nineteenth century, it's a concise journey, using Oscar Wilde's own words, through the epic tale of his life and work. Dr Johnson said about another Irish writer, Oliver Goldsmith: #x91;he touched nothing that he did not adorn.' So it was with Wilde, author of fairy tales, short stories, essays, poems long and short, biblical parables, a shocking novel and five plays, each more accomplished than the last. With John Wyse Jackson's stimulating commentary, and stylish design and illustration by Emma Byrne, this fresh gathering of Oscar's words will interest and delight new readers and devotees alike. For many years after his death, Oscar Wilde was almost ignored in Ireland. More recently, however, his importance as a world figure has been acknowledged at home. This selection, from a Dublin publisher, is a landmark celebration of one of Ireland's greatest sons.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Dedication; Contents; Introduction; All Art is Quite Useless; From The Picture of Dorian Gray; Hélas!; Requiescat; On Irish Home Rule; From Impressions of America; A Change in the Weather; To My Wife; From 'The Selfish Giant'; Aunt Jane's Ball; Impression du Matin; From 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime'; Disobedience is Man's Original Virtue; The Doer of Good; The Harlot's House; From Salomé; In Full Pursuit; A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated; From Lady Windermere's Fan; From The Soul of Man under Socialism; From A Woman of No Importance.; title: From The Importance of Being EarnestThe Love that Dare not Speak its Name; Wilde on Trial; From De Profundis; The Crystal of A Poet's Heart; From The Ballad of Reading Gaol; On the Sale by Auction of Keats's Love Letters; Sources; Acknowledgements; Designer's Note; About the Author; Copyright.