Author: Oscar WildePublisher:
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Languages : en
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Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Duchess of Padua. De profundis
Author: Oscar WildeThe Complete Works of Oscar Wilde ....
Author: Oscar WildePublisher:
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Category : Authors, Irish
Languages : en
Pages : 314
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Duchess of Padua de Profundis
Author: Oscar WildeCollected Works of Oscar Wilde
Author: Oscar WildePublisher: Wordsworth Editions
ISBN: 9781853263972
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 1126
Book Description
Here is a collection of this witty and irreverent author's works--all in their most authoritative texts. Includes The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, and other stories and essays.
Complete Works: Duchess of Padua. De profundis
Author: Oscar WildeThe Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Author: Josephine M. GuyPublisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 9780198119616
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
Volume IV of the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the first variorum edition of Wilde's major critical writing; it includes the critical essays which were re-published in book-form in his life-time - that is, those anthologised in Intentions and The Soul of Man - as well as his graduate essay usually known by the title The Rise of Historical Criticism, but which this volume titles Historical Criticism. The Introduction gives a detailed account of the composition of each of the essays: it gives a new explanation for the relationship between the 'The Decay of Lying' and 'Pen, Pencil, and Poison' (arguing that they are best understood as companion pieces); it provides the first concrete demonstration that Wilde did, on occasions, knowingly 'copy' his own work; and it reveals that substantial cuts were made to some of Wilde's essays (without his full consent) by the periodical editors with whom he worked. The edition also provides, for the first time, a full collation of the textual variants between the published versions of Wilde's essays (that is, both book and periodical), and all extant manuscripts; in addition it establishes a new, authoritative text for Historical Criticism, based on an examination of the original manuscript, which differs significantly from that printed by Robert Ross in his 1908 Collected Edition (and subsequently reprinted in the Collins Complete Works). The annotation to the edition reveals the full extent of Wilde's 'borrowings' both from his own work, and from other writers; it also reveals that much of Historical Criticism is in fact paraphrasing or translating well-known classical texts, and that the some of denseness of the argument is due to ellipses in Wilde's text that were disguised by earlier editors.
Duchess of Padua and De Profundis
Author: Oscar WildePublisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 432
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This volume contains the authorized edition of Oscar Wilde's "Duchess of Padua" and "De Profundis."
Poems
Author: Oscar WildePublisher:
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Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 340
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Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Author: Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories
Author: Oscar WildePublisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101043733
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
A fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty in Oscar Wilde's fascinating gothic tale. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde’s only full-length novel, is the enduringly eerie story of a naïve and irresistible young man lured by decadent Lord Henry Wotton into a life of depravity. Though Dorian is steeped in sin, his face remains perfect, unlined as years pass—while only his portrait, locked away, reveals the blackness of his soul. This timeless tale of Gothic horror and fable, reveling in the unabashed hedonism and cynical wit of its characters, epitomizes Wilde’s literary revolt against the proprieties of the Victorian era. Sharing this volume with The Picture of Dorian Gray are Wilde’s clever and sophisticated story “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” and two of his delicate fairy tales, “The Happy Prince” and “The Birthday of the Infanta.” With an Introduction by Gary Schnidgall and an Afterword by Peter Raby