Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom

Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 67
Release: 2012-03-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 0486111008

Amusing, thought-provoking epigrams, aphorisms, and other jests from the plays, essays, and lively conversation of Oscar Wilde offer a feast of humorous and profound quips. Nearly 400 quotes.

The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2014-05-05
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0486168425

"I have put my genius into my life," declared Oscar Wilde, adding, "I have put only my talent into my works." This gift edition of the renowned poet and playwright's aphorisms draws upon both realms. Hundreds of sparkling jests and epigrams include quips from Wilde's personal letters and conversations as well as his fiction, essays, lectures, and plays. The most comprehensive collection of Wilde's witticisms, it will delight both longtime fans and new readers.

The Wit of Oscar Wilde

The Wit of Oscar Wilde
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Barnes & Noble Publishing
Total Pages: 136
Release: 1995
Genre: Wit and humor
ISBN: 9780880299459

Oscar Wilde is one of the most quoted and quotable men in history. He once boasted that he could talk spontaneously on any subject, a claim effortlessly borne out by the range and scope of the examples collected in this book. It is an entertaining, instructive, and revealing look at a man who is unlikely ever to be forgotten. "Oscar Wilde," wrote Richard Ellmann, "we have only to hear the great name to anticipate that what will be quoted as his will surprise and delight us. His wit is an agent of renewal, as pertinent now as a hundred years ago."

The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde

The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 276
Release: 1959-01-01
Genre: Humor
ISBN: 9780486206028

More than 1,000 ripostes, paradoxes, wisecracks: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes," "I can resist everything except temptation," etc.

The Invention of Oscar Wilde

The Invention of Oscar Wilde
Author: Nicholas Frankel
Publisher: Reaktion Books
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2021-06-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1789144221

“One should either wear a work of art, or be a work of art,” Oscar Wilde once declared. In The Invention of Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel explores Wilde’s self-creation as a “work of art” and a carefully constructed cultural icon. Frankel takes readers on a journey through Wilde’s inventive, provocative life, from his Irish origins—and their public erasure—through his challenges to traditional concepts of masculinity and male sexuality, his marriage and his affairs with young men, including his great love Lord Alfred Douglas, to his criminal conviction and final years of exile in France. Along the way, Frankel takes a deep look at Wilde’s writings, paradoxical wit, and intellectual convictions.

Oscar Wilde's Society Plays

Oscar Wilde's Society Plays
Author: Michael Y. Bennett
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2015-08-06
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9781137410924

As the first collection of essays about Oscar Wilde's comedies, the contributors re-evaluate Oscar Wilde's society plays as 'comedies of manners" to see whether this is actually an apt way to read Wilde's most emblematic plays. Focusing on both the context and the texts, the collection locates Wilde both in his social and literary contexts.

Oscar Wilde in Context

Oscar Wilde in Context
Author: Kerry Powell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 437
Release: 2013-12-12
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 1107016134

Concise and illuminating articles explore Oscar Wilde's life and work in the context of the turbulent landscape of his time.

The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde

The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 210
Release: 2012-04-19
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0486121860

Complete texts of "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories," "Poems in Prose," and "The Portrait of Mr. W. H."