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Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by OSCAR WILDE
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Library Collection | Reading Level: very good
Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture o ...Show more
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime : Little Black Classic by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics
'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...'. Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society. Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Littl ...Show more
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics 119 | Reading Level: very good
"Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. "
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Classics Evergreens
Dorian Gray is having his picture painted by Basil Hallward, who is charmed by his looks. But when Sir Henry Wotton visits, and seduces Dorian into the worship of youthful beauty with an intoxicating speech, Dorian makes a wish he will live to regret: that all the marks of age will now be reflected in t ...Show more
Selected Plays by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Fiction
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
The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Fiction | 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 Decay of Lying (Alma Quirky Classics) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Alma Quirky Classics
In the library of a country house in Nottinghamshire, Vivian is writing an article about the importance of lying, when he is interrupted by Cyril, who tries to tempt him away, but instead is drawn into a discussion about art, nature, literature and imagination. The Decay of Lying sees Wilde explore his ...Show more
The Great Mystery Collection by Edgar Allan Poe; Fyodor Dostoyevsky; Arthur Conan Doyle; Wilkie Collins; Gaston Leroux; Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics
The Happy Prince (Wordsworth Children's Classics) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Wordsworth Children's Classics
In these delightful tales, Oscar Wilde employs all his grace, artistry and wit. The Happy Prince tells of the statue of a once pleasure-loving Prince which, with the help of a selfless Swallow helps people in distress. As well as The Nightingale and the Rose, The Devoted Friend and The Remarkable Rocke ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Reading Level: very good
A haunting, magical fairy-tale collection, in which Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) The Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, The Selfish Giant who learned to love little children and The Star Child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines with p ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins | Reading Level: very good-near fine
In this haunting, magical fairytale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little children and the Star Child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines with poetr ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
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. Includes Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy and ...Show more