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Oscar Wilde's Stories for All Ages by Oscar Wilde
$26.99 AUD
Category: Children's & YA
Selected and presented by one of Wilde's biggest fans, the book includes a foreword from Stephen Fry, as well as introductions to the stories themselves, explaining why they mean so much to him and why they should mean a lot to you too. llustrated by Nicole Stewart, stunning artwork accompanies each sto ...Show more
Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom by Oscar Wilde
$10.95 AUD
Category: Display & Gift
Widely acknowledged as the most brilliant talker of his age, Wilde once explained to Andre Gide, "I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works". This fine collection of nearly 400 quotes, organised by catefory, contains quotations from both his works and his conversation, includi ...Show more
Oscariana: Epigrams by Oscar Wilde; Matthew Sturgis (Foreword by)
$22.99 AUD
Category: Classics
In 1895 Arthur Humphreys - a director of Hatchards and a friend of Oscar Wilde - printed fifty copies of a small eighty-eight-page compendium of Wilde's epigrams, culled from his published works. It was titled Oscariana. The initial selection had been made by Wilde's wife, Constance, but Wilde had not b ...Show more
Picture Of Dorian Gray, The by Oscar Wilde
$16.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics S.
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 life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman inthe eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears the ...Show more
Selected Plays by Oscar Wilde
$16.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
Between 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde's drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest made his name as a playwright who fearlessly mocked the hypocrisy and snobbery of Victorian society and took gleeful delight in appearing to tr ...Show more
Selfish Giant (HB) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Children's & YA
The children always played in the Giant's garden, but when he returned after years away, he said, 'What are you doing here?' and the children fled. 'My own garden is my own garden,' said the Giant; 'anyone can understand that, and I will allow nobody to play in it but myself.' Oscar Wilde's classic tale ...Show more
The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde
$19.99 AUD
Category: Poetry
This poem - originally published anonymously, written after Wilde's two year's hard labour in Reading prison - is the tale of a man who has been sentenced to hang for the murder of the woman he loved. The Ballad of Reading Gaol follows the inmate through his final three weeks, as he stares at the sky an ...Show more
The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Alma Junior Classics Ser.
When the Americans Mr and Mrs Otis and their four children move into Canterville Chase, its previous occupant Lord Canterville warns them that the ghost of his ancestor still haunts the house. Their disbelief is soon shattered by the nightly sound of rattling chains in the hallways and the appearance of ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories by Oscar Wilde
$13.95 AUD
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Wilde did not converse - he told tales.' Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. They have never lacked readers and admirers, George Orwell and W. B. Yeats among them. The stories give free rein to Wilde's origi ...Show more
The Critic As Artist by Oscar Wilde
$21.99 AUD
Category: Art and Design | Series: Ekphrasis Ser.
In The Critic as Artist, arguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertaining, Oscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary between art and criticism. Subtitled Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing and Discussing Everything, the ...Show more
The Decay of Lying (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Oscar Wilde
$9.99 AUD
Category: Display & Gift | Series: Penguin Great Ideas Ser.
'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound writings on aesthetics, in which he proposes that criticism is the highest form of creation and that lying, the telling o ...Show more