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{FREE} the Collected Works of Oscar Wilde THE COLLECTED WORKS OF OSCAR WILDE PDF, EPUB, EBOOK Oscar Wilde | 1104 pages | 05 Sep 2007 | Wordsworth Editions Ltd | 9781840225501 | English | Herts, United Kingdom The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde (Wordsworth Library Collection) by Oscar Wilde | LibraryThing Quick Links Amazon. Amazon Kindle 0 editions. Audible 0 editions. CD Audiobook 0 editions. Project Gutenberg 0 editions. Google Books — Loading Local Book Search. Swap 1 want. Popular covers See all 6 covers. Rating Average: 4. Recently added by. For more help see the Common Knowledge help page. And alien tears will fill for him Pity's long-broken urn, For his mourners will be outcast men, And outcasts always mourn. In , Wilde was among an estimated 50, men who were pardoned for homosexual acts that were no longer considered offences under the Policing and Crime Act homosexuality was decriminalised in England and Wales in The Act implements what is known informally as the Alan Turing law. Wilde's life has been the subject of numerous biographies since his death. The earliest were memoirs by those who knew him: often they are personal or impressionistic accounts which can be good character sketches, but are sometimes factually unreliable. Oscar Wilde and Myself , largely ghost-written by T. Crosland , vindictively reacted to Douglas's discovery that De Profundis was addressed to him and defensively tried to distance him from Wilde's scandalous reputation. Both authors later regretted their work. Of Wilde's other close friends, Robert Sherard ; Robert Ross , his literary executor; and Charles Ricketts variously published biographies, reminiscences or correspondence. Oscar Wilde, a critical study by Arthur Ransome was published in Often speculative in nature, it was widely criticised for its pure conjecture and lack of scholarly rigour. Robert Ross, 23 December []. The book incorporates rediscovered letters and other documents and is the most extensively researched biography of Wilde to appear since Parisian literati, also produced several biographies and monographs on him. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This is the latest accepted revision , reviewed on 14 October This article is about the 19th-century author. For other uses, see Oscar Wilde disambiguation. Aesthetic movement Decadent movement. Constance Lloyd. Cyril Holland Vyvyan Holland. Main article: The Picture of Dorian Gray. Main article: Salome play. Wilde and Lord Alfred Douglas in Main article: The Importance of Being Earnest. When first I was put into prison some people advised me to try and forget who I was. It was ruinous advice. It is only by realising what I am that I have found comfort of any kind. Now I am advised by others to try on my release to forget that I have ever been in a prison at all. I know that would be equally fatal. To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul. Further information: De Profundis letter. See also: The Ballad of Reading Gaol. Main article: Oscar Wilde's tomb. Main article: Biographies of Oscar Wilde. Later on, I think everyone will recognise his achievements; his plays and essays will endure. Of course, you may think with others that his personality and conversation were far more wonderful than anything he wrote, so that his written works give only a pale reflection of his power. Perhaps that is so, and of course, it will be impossible to reproduce what is gone forever. For a more comprehensive list, see Oscar Wilde bibliography. Apparently the editor liked the verse, so switched it to the other magazine so as to attain "a larger and better audience". It was revised for inclusion in Poems the next year. In any case the Marquess of Queensberry came to believe his sons had been corrupted by older homosexuals or, as he phrased it in a letter in the aftermath of Drumlanrig's death: "Montgomerys, The Snob Queers like Rosebery and certainly Christian Hypocrite like Gladstone and the whole lot of you". Merlin Holland concludes that "what Queensberry almost certainly wrote was "posing somdomite [ sic ]". In , Wilde's son Vyvyan Holland published it again, including parts formerly omitted, but relying on a faulty typescript bequeathed to him by Ross. Ross's typescript had contained several hundred errors, including typist's mistakes, Ross's "improvements" and other inexplicable omissions. He pressed our hands. I then went in search of a priest and with great difficulty found Fr Cuthbert Dunne, of the Passionists, who came with me at once and administered Baptism and Extreme Unction — Oscar could not take the Eucharist ". Retrieved 3 April Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford, England: Oxford University Press. The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde. Ann's Church website". Retrieved 15 May The Importance of Being Irish. Retrieved 2 February The Telegraph. Retrieved 26 August PS Review of Freemasonry. Making Oscar Wilde. Oxford University Press. Dublin: A Cultural History. Retrieved 2 March Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde. Ware: Wordsworth Poetry Library. Retrieved 23 August Murray, Isobel ed. Complete Poetry. Oxford World's Classics. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Oscar Wilde in America. Retrieved 15 October Retrieved 12 August Archived from the original on 16 October Woman's Journal. Retrieved 14 April Today in Literature. Regarding Wilde's visit to Leadville, Colorado, 24 December Saint James, Sussex Gardens, London. Archived from the original on 8 January The Overlook Press. Retrieved 25 September New York: HarperCollins. The Guardian. Retrieved 28 September New York Review of Books. Retrieved 1 April The New Yorker. Retrieved 3 August The Picture of Dorian Gray. From Project Gutenberg transcription. October The Guardian London. Retrieved 11 August Wilde, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills — , author. National Archives. Retrieved 12 March British Library. An ideal husband. Act III: London: typescript with extensive autograph revisions, Oscar Wilde and classical antiquity First ed. The Homosexual ity of law. Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years. Harvard University Press. Carson the Advocate. London: Macmillan. Carson had again and again used the word "pose" with ironic emphasis. Hartlepool Mail. British Newspaper Archive. Bloomington, Indiana. Cambridge University Press. Oscar Wilde. New York: Alfred A. X, Ignatius Press, The New York Times. Retrieved 1 June Archived from the original on 21 October Retrieved 24 July The Daily Telegraph. Westminster Abbey. Retrieved 29 August Quirky Travel Guy. Retrieved 28 July Archived from the original on 10 August Retrieved 13 August We The People. Retrieved 28 June Q Spirit. Retrieved 22 February National Book Critics Circle. Archived from the original on 4 June The Pulitzer Prizes. Chicago Sun-Times. Retrieved 2 April The Times. Retrieved 5 February In Memoriam, Oscar Wilde. Paris: Editions Mercure De France. L'esprit d'Oscar Wilde. Collection Anglia 4th ed. Paris: G. Paris: Editions Christian de Bartillat. L'affaire Oscar Wilde ou Du danger de laisser la justice mettre le nez dans nos draps. Paris: Editions Albin Michel. Belford, Barbara Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius. New York: Random House. London: Penny Publishing Limited. Clayworth, Anna Summer Victorian Periodicals Review. Coakley, Davis Dublin: Town House. Cox, Devon London: Frances Lincoln. Ellmann, Richard New York: Vintage Books. Foldy, Michael S. Yale University Press. Holland, Merlin ; Hart-Davis, Rupert The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde. New York: Henry Holt and Co. Holland, Merlin , ed. Write a review Rate this item: 1 2 3 4 5. Preview this item Preview this item. Allow this favorite library to be seen by others Keep this favorite library private. Find a copy in the library Finding libraries that hold this item Collected works of Oscar Wilde. Reviews User-contributed reviews Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Be the first. Add a review and share your thoughts with other readers. Wilde, Oscar, -- User lists with this item 1 Oscar Wilde items by chengannchitracy updated Linked Data More info about Linked Data. The Duchess of Padue -- v. A woman of no importance -- v. An ideal husband -- v. The importance of being earnest -- v. Intentions, and The soul of man -- v. The poems of Oscar Wilde -- v. A house of pomegranates, The happy prince, and other tales -- v. De profundis -- v. The picture of Dorian Gray, and For love of the king -- v. Reviews -- v. Miscellanies -- v. The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde by Wilde, Oscar He is revered for his plays, epigrams and the novel The Picture of Dorian Grey. He was imprisoned under certain circumstances and did die an immature death. Oscar Wilde was born on October 16, , in Dublin, Ireland. Her mother was an Irish nationalist and wrote poetry for Young Irelanders under the pseudonym Speranza. Her works and the poetry from Young Irelanders gave birth to a deep love for literature that Oscar developed over the ages. Oscar Wilde got a preliminary education at home from a French bonne as well as a German governess until the age of nine. Wilde also had a sister named Isola who died of meningitis at a tender age of nine. Oscar had later dedicated the poem Requiescat in her memory. Wilde attended college at the Trinity College in Dublin from to He had received the guidance of his mentor J. Mahaffy during this period and had also helped him write the book Social Life in Greece. Wilde also received a lot of knowledge from the University Philosophical Society, becoming an established member in a short amount of time. He subsequently won a scholarship to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was heavily influenced by John Ruskin and Walter Pater, whose aestheticism was taken to its radical extreme in Wilde's work. By he was already known as a wit and a dandy; soon after, in fact, he was satirized in Gilbert and Sullivan's Patience.
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