He had formed an alliance with an American impresario Steele Mackey , who was planning to open a new theatre on Broadway . Mackey , one of the most brilliant stage managers of the era , introduced such features as folding chairs and a ...
Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann.
Epigrams, aphorisms, and other bon mots gathered from the celebrated wit's plays, essays, and conversation offer an entertaining selection of observations both comic and profound.
The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works, and is available in both hardback and this paperback edition.Continuously...
Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life.
Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales by the celebrated playwright and poet include "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" and "A House of Pomegranates." Revised reissue.
Josephine M. Guy, vol. 4 of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Oxford: Oxford University Press, ... Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde (New York: Knopf, 1988), 567. 2. Rowland Strong, Sensations of Paris (New York: McBride, Nast, 1912), ...
"I must die as I lived, beyond my means." Arguably the most quoted man in history, and certainly in his day, this enormous miniature collection is filled with Oscar Wildes' most notorious and witty sayings.
In this elegant and affectionate biography of one of the most controversial personalities of the nineteenth century, Barbara Belford breaks new ground in the evocation of Oscar Wilde's personal life...
The Oscar Wilde Encyclopaedia (New York, 1998) Coakley, Denis, Oscar Wilde: The Importance of Being Irish (1994). Danson, Lawrence, Wilde's Intentions: The Artist in his Criticism (1997). Dowling, Linda, Aestheticism and Decadence: A ...
This work features Wilde's plays ranging from his early tragedy era to the controversial Salome and little known fragments, La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy.