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11 reviews

Fictionwise Classic, 2003

Quick, clean, and to the point!
I recieved this script within three days of ordering. Well packaged inside and out this book was without even a dent (being paperback). The script itself is fabulous! Very witty and entertaining. Keeps the audience interest and the ending is very satisfying. Thanks! Very happy with my purchase!

Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions)

5 reviews
Oscar Wilde

Dover Publications, 1998

Unparalleled Wit & Wisdom
"I can resist everything except temptation." "There is no sin except stupidity." "It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances." "It is always with the best intentions that the worst work is done." These laconic aphorisms are just the tip of the iceberg of Wilde's impressive, yet oftentimes eclectic and nihilistic, use of the English language. Dover gives us 60 pages of brilliant ...

Ballad of Reading Gaol

4 reviews

Fictionwise Classic, 2004

A Prison Experience
Oscar Wilde was not a person who was likely to take being put into prison lightly. Those who know the full extent of Wilde's wit ought to see how bitterly it was able to express itself, when getting locked up for enjoying inappropriate pleasures of the mind results in this, the reflection that "every prison that men build is built with bricks of shame." (p. 40) Although it is included in a ...

The Selfish Giant

6 reviews
Oscar Wilde, S. Saelig Gallagher

Putnam Juvenile, 1995

Oscar Wilde's Magical Tale
"Every afternoon, as they were coming from school, the children used to go and play in the Giant's garden..." So begins Oscar Wilde's timeless classic. The children love the Giant's garden, its soft grass, beautiful flowers, tall climbing trees, and singing birds. But when the Giant returns from a seven year visit and sees all the children playing happily, he is angry. "My own garden is my ...

Oscar Wilde (A Laurel reader)

4 reviews
Oscar Wilde

Dell, 1960

"The best life of Oscar Wilde", said George Bernard Shaw.
"The best life of Oscar Wilde", said George Bernard Shaw after reading this book. I cannot but agree with him utterly. No unnecesary data is wasted, no long reflexions bore us. It's just an Oscar's very close friend telling us with great elegance and delicacy the story of one he has admired and loved so much, but without fear of saying the truth. Amicus Plato, sed magis amica veritas. Of ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray

5 reviews

Neeland Media LLC, 2004

Oscar Wilde is a Genius
After reading some of the contemporary reviews of this book, I was more than a little curious to see how awful this book really was. I was skeptical that it could be bad, because I'm very familiar with the wit of Wilde. As far as gothic novels go, this book ranks high in the Victorian era. Looking back from a historical perspective, I can see why the critics of the time disliked it. But from ...

Salome

10 reviews
Aubrey Beardsley, Oscar Wilde

Dover Publications, 1967

Salome: Fact or Fiction?
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De Profundis

9 reviews
Oscar Wilde

Avon Books, 1976

Strangely moving
One of the most famous - and infamous - letters in all of literature, De Profundis is a strange little piece of work: either much more than it appears on the surface, or much less. It is something I think everyone should read, if only for its insight into the human character, particularly that of one under great personal suffering. Wilde wrote this extraordinarily long letter from prison to Lord ...

The happy prince and other fairy tales (The complete works of Oscar Wilde)

4 reviews
Oscar Wilde

Doubleday, Page, & Co, 1923

Nine lovely, tragic tales
I am no expert on Oscar Wilde, but I've been reading fairytales long enough to be able to tell the difference between an enchanting story and a bunch of pap. The nine magically airy yarns in this small collection are definitely in the first category. "The Happy Prince" and "The Selfish Giant" are perhaps the most famous of the nine. In the first story, the golden statue of a prince weeps for ...

Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

16 reviews
Oscar Wilde

HarperCollins Publishers, 1999

If you love Wilde, you MUST own this book!
Though the print is small for those of us over 40, it's worth it - if not, it would weigh about 10 pounds! As it is, it's a tome, but worth reading, and re-reading time and again. It has everything - everything! - that you'll ever hear mentioned - his stories, his novels, his essay's. It would make a great gift for a young writer, as well.

The Happy Prince

3 reviews
Oscar Wilde

Shambhala, 1980

Excellent beyond compare!!!!
As a child I didn't have the books of Oscar Wilde but rather the records. My imagination soared with his descriptions of life, and my eyes overflowed with tears at each story. The record of the Happy Prince was read by Bing Crosby and Orson Wells and each year at Christmas we still play that old scratched thing, just to hear it's wonderous love story and that of The Selfish Giant. Now I ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oxford World's Classics)

3 reviews
Oscar Wilde

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

Who wants to look young forever?
Basil, who up until now was a mediocre painter after meeting Dorian Gray a young Adonis, was inspired to create a masterpiece of which he puts himself into. Against Basil's wishes, Dorian Gray is influenced by Basil's friend Lord Henry. Dorian looks at his portrait and realizes that while the portrait will stay young forever, he will grow old; so Dorian makes a wish that if only he could stay ...

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

4 reviews
Oscar Wilde

Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio), 2000

Don't believe superficial certainties
Lord Saville one night listens to a chiromantist who tells him he has to commit a crime, whose victim is supposed to be a relative of some kind, before being able to marry his love. The tale is full of humor and shows how he fails, systematically, in his enterprise, because he believes the soothsayer. But the more humoristic the tale becomes, the more desperate Lord Saville grows. Till one night ...

The Importance of Being Oscar

3 reviews
Oscar Wilde

Silent Books Ltd, 1995

Tales of Days Gone by: Woodcuts by Naoko Matsubara
These engaging tales are well translated and are a good introduction to Japanese folk literature. The spectacular treat of this book is the illustration. Naoko Matsubara is a brilliant woodblock artist. Her powerful pictures breathe authenticity into the not quite believeable, miraculous tales. Her powerful lines and radiant colors illuminate the stories carrying them into a transendient sphere .

Happy Prince & Other Stories

3 reviews
Oscar Wilde, Wilde

Michael O'Mara Books, 1999

Timeless Tales of Great Worth
When I was quite small (I'm now 64) the 33 1/3 records were introduced. One of the first that we got was a recording of "The Happy Prince". It featured Bing Crosby. I listened to it over and over until I went off to college. Years later I was in England, and I discovered that there was a whole book of stories. Over the years I have re-read this book so much that it is now in tatters. Each ...

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics)

3 reviews
Oscar Wilde

Barnes & Noble Classics, 2004

"Beauty is a form of Genius."
Oscar Wilde was one of the foremost representatives of Aestheticism, a movement based on the notion that art exists for no other purpose than its existence itself ("l'art pour l'art"), not for the purpose of social and moral enlightenment. Born in Dublin and a graduate of Oxford's Magdalen College, he initially worked primarily as a journalist, editor and lecturer, but gradually turned to writing ...

The portrait of Mr. W.H.; (The brocade series)

2 reviews
Oscar Wilde

T.B. Mosher, 1901

Passions about Shakespeare in 19c London.
This little book is about Shakespeare's sonnets, but more than that it is a book about nineteenth-century young men and their obsession with Shakespeare. Two in particular become completely engaged by a particular literary interpretation--that Shakespeare wrote his beautiful sonnets not for a wealthy patron, but to his Rosalind, or rather to the actor who played all his lovely strong women--that ...

The Fisherman and His Soul and Other Fairy Tales (Bloomsbury Classic)

3 reviews
Oscar Wilde

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, 1997

The Fisherman and his soul
I think the most attrative parts of this story is the descriptive paragraphs.

The Selfish Giant

4 reviews
Oscar Wilde, Mary Hollingsworth

Thomas Nelson Inc, 1998

Good story; Easy read; Even Dad likes it
Good story, good illustrations, no PC mumbo jumbo.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

3 reviews

Brookes Global Pte Ltd, 2007

"Beauty is a form of Genius."
Oscar Wilde was one of the foremost representatives of Aestheticism, a movement based on the notion that art exists for no other purpose than its existence itself ("l'art pour l'art"), not for the purpose of social and moral enlightenment. Born in Dublin and a graduate of Oxford's Magdalen College, he initially worked primarily as a journalist, editor and lecturer, but gradually turned to writing ...

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