Fletcher angus introduction (5 risultati)

Paperback. Condizione: Fair.

Paperback. Condizione: As New. Very nice book. Minor wear to cover edges.

Softcover. Condizione: As New. A renowned eccentric, dandy, and man-about-town, Oscar Wilde was foremost a dazzling wit and dramatic genius whose plays, poems, essays, and fiction contain some of the most frequently quoted quips and passages in the English language. This volume features a wide selection of Wilde?s literary output, including the comic masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest, an immensely popular play filled with satiric epigrams that mercilessly expose Victorian hypocrisy; The Portrait of Mr. W. H., a story proposing that Shakespeare?s sonnets were inspired by the poet?s love for a young man; The House of Pomegranates, the author?s collection of fairy tales; lectures Wilde delivered, first in the United States, where he exhorted his audiences to love beauty and art, and then in England, where he presented his impressions of America; his two major literary-theoretical works, ?The Decay of Lying? and ?The Critic as Artist?; and a selection of verse, including his great poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol, in which Wilde famously declared that ?each man kills the thing he loves.? A testament to Wilde?s incredible versatility, this collection displays his legendary wit, brilliant use of language, and penetrating insight into the human condition.…

paperback. Condizione: Very Good. Same / next day dispatch (Monday - Friday).

paperback. Condizione: New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title.