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Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | Series: Pulp! The Classics
Hey Girl...I'd sell my soul for you. Dorian Gray might be as pretty as a picture, but he's paid a devilishly high price for it. He'll stay drop-dead gorgeous, but there's something nasty festering in the attic...
Selected Plays by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Performing Arts Drama Plays
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: Classics
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 Canterville Ghost and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Childrens
Sir Simon de Canterville has been haunting the residents of Canterville Chase for 300 years - and then the Otis family moves in. No matter how hard he tries, they won't be spooked, and soon the Otis family turns their attention to getting rid of him... This collection contains all seven of Oscar Wilde's ...Show more
The Complete Fairy Stories of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics
The complete collection, first published in 1952 with exquisite illustrations by the celebrated artist Philippe Jullian, republished in a beautiful giftable edition. For nearly 150 years, the classic fairy stories of Oscar Wilde have been cherished by readers of all ages. Rediscover all nine of the stor ...Show more
The Complete Short Stories by Oscar Wilde
17.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | 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
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Category: Art | 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 (Alma Quirky Classics) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics | 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 Decay of Lying (Penguin Great Ideas Series) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Culture Ideas Politics | 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
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics
Oscar Wilde's moving story of the relationship between a magnificent statue and a little swallow is brought to life by Jane Ray's stunning artwork. Perched on high, the prince's statue can see all the misery of the city and begs the swallow to pluck off his gold leaf and distribute it amongst the poor. ...Show more
The Happy Prince by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Classics
THE HAPPY PRINCE - CLASSIC TALE - BY OSCAR WILDEIn a town where a lot of poor people suffer and where there are a lot of miseries, a swallow who was left behind after his flock flew off to Egypt for the winter, meets the statue of the late "Happy Prince," who in reality has never experienced true sorrow ...Show more
The Happy Prince (HB) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: Middle Readers
Introduce your child to Oscar Wilde’s classic story with a modern twist. When a boy called Swallow arrives in a new city, he rests at the feet of the gold statue of the Happy Prince. The statue tells him his worries about the poor people of the city. Together they make a plan. Each night the little boy ...Show more