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Reviews — Oscar Wilde

Reviews

Oscar Wilde

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 462 pages

Reviews is a collection of Oscar Wilde’s critical essays and book reviews, gathered in a uniform edition. It ranges over literature, art, and culture, showing his wit, sharp judgments, and occasional prophetic insight. Listeners can enjoy Wilde as critic and observer of his age.

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Contents

  1. REVIEWS
  2. INTRODUCTION
  3. DINNERS AND DISHES
  4. A MODERN EPIC
  5. SHAKESPEARE ON SCENERY
  6. A BEVY OF POETS
  7. PARNASSUS VERSUS PHILOLOGY
  8. HAMLET AT THE LYCEUM
  9. TWO NEW NOVELS
  10. HENRY THE FOURTH AT OXFORD
  11. MODERN GREEK POETRY
  12. OLIVIA AT THE LYCEUM
  13. AS YOU LIKE IT AT COOMBE HOUSE
  14. A HANDBOOK TO MARRIAGE
  15. HALF-HOURS WITH THE WORST AUTHORS
  16. ONE OF MR. CONWAY’S REMAINDERS
  17. TO READ OR NOT TO READ
  18. TWELFTH NIGHT AT OXFORD
  19. THE LETTERS OF A GREAT WOMAN
  20. NEWS FROM PARNASSUS
  21. SOME NOVELS
  22. A LITERARY PILGRIM
  23. BÉRANGER IN ENGLAND
  24. THE POETRY OF THE PEOPLE
  25. THE CENCI
  26. HELENA IN TROAS
  27. PLEASING AND PRATTLING
  28. BALZAC IN ENGLISH
  29. TWO NEW NOVELS
  30. BEN JONSON

and 73 more chapters

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