Essays and Lectures de Oscar Wilde

Essays and Lectures

Oscar Wilde

Essays and Lectures is wonderful collection of non-fiction prose pieces by Oscar Wilde. It contains the following preface: HISTORICAL criticism nowhere occurs as an isolated fact in the civilisation or literature of any people. It is part of that complex working towards freedom which may be described as the revolt against authority. It is merely one facet of that speculative spirit of an innovation, which in the sphere of action produces democracy and revolution, and in that of thought is the parent of philosophy and physical science; and its importance as a factor of progress is based not so much on the results it attains, as on the tone of thought which it represents, and the method by which it works.

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Read & Co. Great Essays – 25 noi 2014	99^.37 lei 43-57 zile
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Blurb – 10 feb 2019	200^.06 lei 38-44 zile
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1st World Library –	168^.17 lei 43-57 zile
Bibliotech Press – 6 ian 2020	183^.77 lei 43-57 zile
TREDITION CLASSICS – 31 dec 2012	246^.58 lei 43-57 zile
Prince Classics – 5 sep 2019	257^.66 lei 38-44 zile
Throne Classics – 8 sep 2019	258^.29 lei 38-44 zile

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Express

Paperback (13)

37^.77 lei 22-36 zile

–

37^.77 lei 22-36 zile

CREATESPACE –

56^.61 lei 22-36 zile

CREATESPACE –

85^.49 lei 22-36 zile

CREATESPACE –

92^.01 lei 22-36 zile

1st World Library –

77^.76 lei 43-57 zile

Blurb – 5 noi 2021

87^.73 lei 43-57 zile

Echo Library – 31 dec 2005

91^.46 lei 38-44 zile

Bibliotech Press – 5 ian 2020

96^.64 lei 43-57 zile

Read & Co. Great Essays – 25 noi 2014

99^.37 lei 43-57 zile

Prince Classics – 5 sep 2019

172^.22 lei 38-44 zile

Throne Classics – 8 sep 2019

172^.80 lei 38-44 zile

TREDITION CLASSICS – 31 dec 2012

175^.30 lei 43-57 zile

Blurb – 10 feb 2019

200^.06 lei 38-44 zile

Hardback (5)

168^.17 lei 43-57 zile

1st World Library –

168^.17 lei 43-57 zile

Bibliotech Press – 6 ian 2020

183^.77 lei 43-57 zile

TREDITION CLASSICS – 31 dec 2012

246^.58 lei 43-57 zile

Prince Classics – 5 sep 2019

257^.66 lei 38-44 zile

Throne Classics – 8 sep 2019

258^.29 lei 38-44 zile

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Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for "gross indecency", imprisonment, and early death at age 46. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art" and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray(1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French while in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London. At the height of his fame and success, while The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) was still being performed in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry prosecuted for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with men