Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde is a collection of essays, critical dialogues and prose poems by Oscar Wilde, gathered with a preface by Robert Ross. It ranges across his reflections on art, criticism, genius and morality, offering a lively introduction to his thought and style. Listeners can enjoy Wilde's wit and elegant, aphoristic prose.
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Transcribed from the 1914 Methuen and Co. edition by David Price, email [email protected] SELECTED PROSE OF OSCAR WILDE Contents: Preface by Robert Ross How They Struck a Contemporary The Quality of George Meredith Life in the Fallacious Model Life the Disciple Life the Plagiarist The Indispensable East The Influence of the Impressionists on Climate An Exposure to Naturalism Thomas Griffiths Wainewright Wainewright at Hobart Town Cardinal Newman and the Autobiographers Robert Browning The Two Supreme and Highest Arts The Secrets of Immortality The Critic and his Material Dante the Living Guide The Limitations of Genius Wanted A New Background Without Frontiers The Poetry of Archæology The Art of Archæology Herod Suppliant The Tetrarch’s Remorse The Tetrarch’s Treasure Salomé anticipates Dr. Strauss The Young King A Coronation The King of Spain A Bull Fight
The Throne Room A Protected Country The Blackmailing of the Emperor Covent Garden A Letter from Miss Jane Percy to her Aunt The Triumph of American ‘Humor’ The Garden of Death An Eton Kit-cat Mrs. Erlynne Exercises the Prerogative of a Grandmother Motherhood more than Marriage The Damnable Ideal From a Rejected Prize-essay The Possibilities of the Useful The Artist The Doer of Good The Disciple The Master The House of Judgment The Teacher of Wisdom Wilde gives directions about ‘De Profundis’ Carey Street Sorrow wears no mask Vita Nuova The Grand Romantic Clapham Junction The Broken Resolution Domesticity at Berneval A visit to the Pope DEDICATION This anthology is dedicated to Michael Lykiardopulos as a little token of his services to English Literature in the great Russian Empire. PREFACE
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