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Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde — Oscar Wilde

Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

  • Essays
  • Book language: English
  • 88 pages

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

Contents

  1. SELECTED PROSE OF OSCAR WILDE
  2. DEDICATION
  3. PREFACE
  4. HOW THEY STRUCK A CONTEMPORARY
  5. THE QUALITY OF GEORGE MEREDITH
  6. LIFE THE FALLACIOUS MODEL
  7. LIFE THE DISCIPLE
  8. LIFE THE PLAGIARIST
  9. THE INDISPENSABLE EAST
  10. THE INFLUENCE OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS ON CLIMATE
  11. AN EXPOSURE OF NATURALISM
  12. THOMAS GRIFFITHS WAINEWRIGHT
  13. WAINEWRIGHT AT HOBART TOWN
  14. CARDINAL NEWMAN AND THE AUTOBIOGRAPHERS
  15. ROBERT BROWNING
  16. THE TWO SUPREME AND HIGHEST ARTS
  17. THE SECRETS OF IMMORTALITY
  18. THE CRITIC AND HIS MATERIAL
  19. DANTE THE LIVING GUIDE
  20. THE LIMITATIONS OF GENIUS
  21. WANTED A NEW BACKGROUND
  22. WITHOUT FRONTIERS
  23. THE POETRY OF ARCHÆOLOGY
  24. THE ART OF ARCHÆOLOGY
  25. HEROD SUPPLIANT
  26. THE TETRARCH’S REMORSE
  27. THE TETRARCH’S TREASURE
  28. SALOMÉ ANTICIPATES DR. STRAUSS
  29. THE YOUNG KING
  30. A CORONATION

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