Miscellanies is a posthumous collection of essays and miscellaneous writings by Oscar Wilde, edited by Robert Ross. The texts range across literature, criticism, and culture, revealing Wilde's wit and wide-ranging interests. It is worth listening to for Wilde's essayistic voice and the insight it offers into his critical mind.
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Transcribed from the 1908 edition by David Price, email [email protected] MISCELLANIES BY OSCAR WILDE DEDICATION: TO WALTER LEDGER Since these volumes are sure of a place in your marvellous library I trust that with your unrivalled knowledge of the various editions of Wilde you may not detect any grievous error whether of taste or type, of omission or commission. But should you do so you must blame the editor, and not those who so patiently assisted him, the proof readers, the printers, or the publishers. Some day, however, I look forward to your bibliography of the author, in which you will be at liberty to criticise my capacity for anything except regard and friendship for yourself.—Sincerely yours, ROBERT ROSS May 25, 1908. INTRODUCTION The concluding volume of any collected edition is unavoidably fragmentary and desultory. And if this particular volume is no exception to a general tendency, it presents points of view in the author’s literary career which may have escaped his greatest admirers and
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