Plays, Prose Writings And Poems
$49.79
- Hardcover
432 pages
- Release Date
2 December 1991
Summary
Effortlessly achieved, each revealing a different aspect of his brilliance, all of the plays, prose writings, and poems gathered here support Wilde’s belief that entertainment provides the best kind of edification. The works include Wilde’s once-controversial and now classic novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the riotously comic plays “The Importance of Being Earnest” and “Lady Windermere’s Fan”, and the famous poem he wrote after being released from prison, “Th…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781857150421 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1857150422 |
| Author: | Oscar Wilde |
| Publisher: | Everyman |
| Imprint: | Everyman's Library |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 432 |
| Release Date: | 2 December 1991 |
| Weight: | 745g |
| Dimensions: | 210mm x 134mm x 40mm |
| Series: | Everyman's Library CLASSICS |
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About The Author
Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. He later lived in London and married Constance Lloyd there in 1884. Wilde was a leader of the Aesthetic Movement. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was first published in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine in 1890. He published a revised and expanded edition in 1891 in response to negative reviews which criticised the book’s immorality. Wilde became famous through of the immense success of his plays such as Lady Windemere’s Fan (1892), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).
In 1985, after a public scandal involving Wilde’s relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, he was sentenced to two years’ hard labour in Reading Gaol for ‘gross indecency’. His poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol was based on his experiences in prison and was published in 1898. After his release, Wilde never lived in England again and died in Paris on 30 November 1900. He is buried in Père Lachaise cemetery.
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