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Collected Works of Oscar Wilde by WILDE OSCAR
$24.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Special Editions
Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture o ...Show more
Lies (Vintage Minis) by Oscar Wilde
$9.99 NZD
Category: Literature | Series: Vintage Minis Ser.
From disguises and impostors to locked doors and deadly secrets, Wilde was obsessed with lying as an art form rich with delights- and dangers.Selected from Wilde's essays, plays and prose including The Picture of Dorian Gray.VINTAGE MINIS- GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS.A series of short books by ...Show more
Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast by Oscar Wilde
$2.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Little Black Classics 119 | Reading Level: very good
"Wilde's celebrated witticisms on the dangers of sincerity, duplicitous biographers, the stupidity of the English - and his own genius. "
Oscar Wilde's Wit and Wisdom by Oscar Wilde
$5.99 NZD
Category: Literature
Widely acknowledged as the most brilliant talker of his age, Wilde once explained to Andre Gide, "I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works". This fine collection of nearly 400 quotes, organised by catefory, contains quotations from both his works and his conversation, includi ...Show more
The Happy Prince & Other Stories (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The richness of Oscar Wilde's way with words and ideas is given full range in this sparkling collection of short stories written between 1887 and 1891. From the comic tales of The Canterville Ghost and Lord Arthur Savile's Crime to the marvelous fairy stories and fantasies of The Selfish Giant, The Hap ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde
$9.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction
"The Happy Prince" is one of the most famous and beloved of Oscar Wilde's tales. This volume also includes two more of Wilde's most treasured stories, "The Selfish Giant" and "The Nightingale and the Rose." After the death of a young prince, his subjects erect a richly bejewelled statue of him. From thi ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
$4.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift S. | Reading Level: General Adult
Wilde's witty and buoyant comedy of manners, filled with some of literature's most famous epigrams, reprinted from an authoritative British edition. Considered Wilde's most perfect work.
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
$7.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Wordsworth Classics | Reading Level: very good
With an Introduction and Notes by John M.L. Drew, University of Buckingham. Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative P ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
$14.99 NZD
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
The Picture of Dorian GrayBy Oscar WildeOscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's mor ...Show more
Wildeana (riverrun Editions) by Matthew Sturgis (Contribution by); Oscar Wilde
$34.99 NZD
Category: Literature
Oscar Wilde's early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met. He was celebrated - or mocked - as the master of the ingenious epigram, the provocative paradox, the witty aside or the extravagant conceit.In researching his monumental biography of Wilde Matth ...Show more
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