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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Opening of the book
Transcribed from the 1908 Methuen and Co. edition by David Price, email [email protected] REVIEWS To Mrs. CAREW The apparently endless difficulties against which I have contended, and am contending, in the management of Oscar Wilde’s literary and dramatic property have brought me many valued friends; but only one friendship which seemed as endless; one friend’s kindness which seemed to annul the disappointments of eight years. That is why I venture to place your name on this volume with the assurance of the author himself who bequeathed to me his works and something of his indiscretion. ROBERT ROSS May 12th, 1908. INTRODUCTION The editor of writings by any author not long deceased is censured sooner or later for his errors of omission or commission. I have decided to err on the side of commission and to include in the uniform edition of Wilde’s works everything that could be identified as genuine. Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would have preferred to forget. As a matter of fact, I believe this volume will prove of unusual interest; some of the reviews are curiously
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