The Plays of Oscar Wilde

Wilde, Oscar

Editore: The Modern Library / Random House, New York

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Fine condition gray cloth boards with forest green front cover and spine rectangular block decorations enclosing gold front cover and spine lettering, and contained in a near fine condition price-clipped color illustrated dust jacket. Includes Introduction by Edgar Saltus; and an unpaginated rear section entitled "The Best of the World's Best Books: Complete List of Titles in The Modern Library". Illustrated with a three-color design on the front and rear endpapers. The inside of the dust jacket contains a complete listing of all 388 (three hundred eighty-eight) Modern Library publications, of which this volume is number 83. "Alive with light-tipped quips and stinging darts, The Plays of Oscar Wilde represent in fullest measure the famous decadent's unique contribution to English letters. Master of the scintillant epigram and electric repartee, he is nowhere so happy and felictious as in his dramatic writings. His dialogue still sparkles with wit and a cutting irony. In time his prose may grow faint in memory and his poetry may be given a somewhat less lustrous evaluation than he himself gave it, but he will always be remembered as the creator of these inimitably urbane, ironic and effervescent comedies." - from the inner front jacket flap. 0.

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• Titolo: The Plays of Oscar Wilde
• Editore: The Modern Library / Random House, New York
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Fine
• Condizione della sovraccoperta: Near Fine