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Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback / softback Number of Pages: 288 This classic novel about the frailty of human beauty and sensual experience and the futility of vanity remains as...

90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books \"All art,\" Oscar Wilde once announced, \"is quite useless.\" Selected here are some of his finest prose works on the subject...

'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The Decay of Lying includes two of Wilde's most comprehensive - and witty - explorations of his aesthetic philosphy- 'The Decay...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA richly detailed literary biography, Sheridan Morley's work chronicles the dazzling and ultimately tragic...

A new selection of the powerful and moving letters and poems Wilde wrote in prison, edited with an introduction by Colm T ibin At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde...

Recounted almost word for word by Wilde hims elf, Juliet Gardiner provides the reader with extracts from his extensive literary portfolio both written and spoken, in private and in public,...

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Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double...

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A marvellous collection of the finest quotes from a master of wordplay, as part of a new series of five Oscar Wilde titles 'I have nothing to declare,' Wilde once...

Condition remarks:Book: Very goodJacket: Slipcase: GoodPages: GoodFew writers in the English language have weaponised language with the precision and pleasure of Oscar Wilde, and The Wit of Oscar Wilde presents...

Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in...

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Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: An account of Oscar Wilde's spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his new, shocking conviction that 'the supreme vice is shallowness'....

Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret...

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There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about', said Oscar Wilde more than a hundred years ago. But...

The new paperback series- Penguin English Library The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not...

Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in...

Condition remarks:Book: GoodJacket: No dust jacket - some marks on spine and cornersPages: Tanning and foxingFew writers in the English language have wielded wit as a weapon quite like Oscar...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA sweeping treasury of one of literature's most brilliant and irreverent voices, this comprehensive collection gathers the full range of Oscar Wilde's...

Penguin Classics relaunch Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation....

Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Who would have thought a comedy of manners written more than a hundred years ago would still be so apt and so...

New selection with introduction, suggestions for further reading, and full explanatory notes Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions'...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book provides a fascinating insight into the life and wit of Oscar Wilde, exploring his background, influences, and literary...

In this brilliant collection of essays, part of a new series of five Oscar Wilde titles, Wilde wittily portrays the reversal of society's norms In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsCondition remarks: Minor nick.tear on front cover. Internally sound. A sparkling collection of wit and verbal weaponry, The Importance of Being a...

Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A selection of Oscar Wilde's best and most important plays - sharp, relevant and brilliant to this day A selection of...

After all, who has the right to cast a stone against one who has suffered? Cannot repentance wipe out an act of folly? Why should there be one law for...

A collection of Wilde's most charming and well-loved tales, as part of a new series of five Oscar Wilde titles A collection of stories, including two of Wilde's most famous-...

A beautiful deluxe gift edition of Oscar Wilde's decadent and disturbing novel with foiled covers, marbled endpapers, sprayed edges, beautiful paper and finished with a silk ribbon. A beautiful deluxe...

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was born in Dublin, the son of a surgeon and a poet. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the...

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46 new books in the bestselling Little Black Classics series, to celebrate the first ever Penguin Classic in 1946 'It would be unfair to expect other people to be as...

Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerThe Importance of Being Earnest is a satirical play by Oscar Wilde that critiques Victorian social hypocrisy. Set in the...

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More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine , the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the...

Published to follow the release of the new movie of Wilde's life, starring Stephen Fry, this collection displays Wilde's fabulous verbal dexterity. Based on two books published during his lifetime...

For the first time in one volume, this complete collection of all the short fiction Oscar Wilde published contains such social and literary parodies as "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" and...