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Miscellanies — Oscar Wilde

Miscellanies

Oscar Wilde

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 238 pages

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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Text source: gutenberg.org · The work is in the public domain.

Contents

  1. MISCELLANIES BY OSCAR WILDE
  2. DEDICATION: TO WALTER LEDGER
  3. INTRODUCTION
  4. THE TOMB OF KEATS
  5. THE GROSVENOR GALLERY, 1877
  6. THE GROSVENOR GALLERY 1879
  7. L’ENVOI
  8. MRS. LANGTRY AS HESTER GRAZEBROOK
  9. WOMAN’S DRESS
  10. MORE RADICAL IDEAS UPON DRESS REFORM
  11. MR. WHISTLER’S TEN O’CLOCK
  12. THE RELATION OF DRESS TO ART: A NOTE IN BLACK AND WHITE ON MR. WHISTLER’S LECTURE
  13. KEATS’S SONNET ON BLUE
  14. THE AMERICAN INVASION
  15. SERMONS IN STONES AT BLOOMSBURY: THE NEW SCULPTURE ROOM AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM
  16. THE UNITY OF THE ARTS: A LECTURE AND A FIVE O’CLOCK
  17. ART AT WILLIS’S ROOMS
  18. MR. MORRIS ON TAPESTRY
  19. SCULPTURE AT THE ARTS AND CRAFTS
  20. PRINTING AND PRINTERS
  21. THE BEAUTIES OF BOOKBINDING
  22. THE CLOSE OF THE ARTS AND CRAFTS
  23. ENGLISH POETESSES
  24. LONDON MODELS
  25. LETTER TO JOAQUIN MILLER
  26. NOTES ON WHISTLER
  27. REPLY TO WHISTLER
  28. LETTERS ON DORIAN GRAY
  29. AN ANGLO-INDIAN’S COMPLAINT
  30. A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES

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