Proofed and corrected from the original edition for enjoyable reading. (Worth every penny spent!)
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The body of literary work left by Oscar Wilde for appraisement by a dispassionate posterity is not large. What there is of it is distributed among so many of the forms of literary expression that one is almost puzzled whether to consider him as poet, essayist, novelist, epigrammatist, or dramatist. Yet there is enough of each kind so excellent in quality that one is obliged to believe that Wilde would have been distinguished as great in any one of the forms had he devoted his genius to it.
Indeed, there are many who concede to him the title of poet on "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" alone. Others there are who deem the author of "Dorian Gray" and "The Happy Prince," a born tale-teller. Others again instance "Intentions" and "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" as the essays of a critical genius. Still others point to "Salome" and the society plays as the creative work of a master dramatist—so extraordinary was the versatility of this remarkable man.
At a time of retrospection when he was writing of his own life and emptying his heart of its sorrow, Wilde looked back on what he had done and pride rose up in him to move him to exclaim:
"I made art a philosophy and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colors of things: there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder. I took the drama, the most objective form known to art, and made it as personal a mode of expression as the lyric or sonnet: at the same time I widened its range and enriched its characterization. Drama, novel, poem in prose, poem in rhyme, subtle or fantastic dialogue, whatever I touched I made beautiful in a new mode of beauty; to truth itself I gave what is false no less than what is true as its rightful province, and showed that the false and the true are merely forms of intellectual existence. I treated art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me. I summed up all systems in a phrase and all existence in an epigram.
***
The Contents of "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H
And Other Stories".
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
The Sphinx Without a Secret
The Canterville Ghost
The Model Millionaire
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
A Florentine Tragedy
***
ILLUSTRATIONS.
LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME.
"His spectacles seemed almost to touch the palm."
THE SPHINX WITHOUT A SECRET.
"Can't you tell the truth?' I exclaimed."
THE CANTERVILLE GHOST.
"A large pillow whizzed past his head."
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The body of literary work left by Oscar Wilde for appraisement by a dispassionate posterity is not large. What there is of it is distributed among so many of the forms of literary expression that one is almost puzzled whether to consider him as poet, essayist, novelist, epigrammatist, or dramatist. Yet there is enough of each kind so excellent in quality that one is obliged to believe that Wilde would have been distinguished as great in any one of the forms had he devoted his genius to it.
Indeed, there are many who concede to him the title of poet on "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" alone. Others there are who deem the author of "Dorian Gray" and "The Happy Prince," a born tale-teller. Others again instance "Intentions" and "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" as the essays of a critical genius. Still others point to "Salome" and the society plays as the creative work of a master dramatist—so extraordinary was the versatility of this remarkable man.
At a time of retrospection when he was writing of his own life and emptying his heart of its sorrow, Wilde looked back on what he had done and pride rose up in him to move him to exclaim:
"I made art a philosophy and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colors of things: there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder. I took the drama, the most objective form known to art, and made it as personal a mode of expression as the lyric or sonnet: at the same time I widened its range and enriched its characterization. Drama, novel, poem in prose, poem in rhyme, subtle or fantastic dialogue, whatever I touched I made beautiful in a new mode of beauty; to truth itself I gave what is false no less than what is true as its rightful province, and showed that the false and the true are merely forms of intellectual existence. I treated art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me. I summed up all systems in a phrase and all existence in an epigram.
***
The Contents of "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H
And Other Stories".
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
The Sphinx Without a Secret
The Canterville Ghost
The Model Millionaire
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
A Florentine Tragedy
***
ILLUSTRATIONS.
LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME.
"His spectacles seemed almost to touch the palm."
THE SPHINX WITHOUT A SECRET.
"Can't you tell the truth?' I exclaimed."
THE CANTERVILLE GHOST.
"A large pillow whizzed past his head."
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H. And Other Stories (Illustrated)
Proofed and corrected from the original edition for enjoyable reading. (Worth every penny spent!)
***
The body of literary work left by Oscar Wilde for appraisement by a dispassionate posterity is not large. What there is of it is distributed among so many of the forms of literary expression that one is almost puzzled whether to consider him as poet, essayist, novelist, epigrammatist, or dramatist. Yet there is enough of each kind so excellent in quality that one is obliged to believe that Wilde would have been distinguished as great in any one of the forms had he devoted his genius to it.
Indeed, there are many who concede to him the title of poet on "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" alone. Others there are who deem the author of "Dorian Gray" and "The Happy Prince," a born tale-teller. Others again instance "Intentions" and "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" as the essays of a critical genius. Still others point to "Salome" and the society plays as the creative work of a master dramatist—so extraordinary was the versatility of this remarkable man.
At a time of retrospection when he was writing of his own life and emptying his heart of its sorrow, Wilde looked back on what he had done and pride rose up in him to move him to exclaim:
"I made art a philosophy and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colors of things: there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder. I took the drama, the most objective form known to art, and made it as personal a mode of expression as the lyric or sonnet: at the same time I widened its range and enriched its characterization. Drama, novel, poem in prose, poem in rhyme, subtle or fantastic dialogue, whatever I touched I made beautiful in a new mode of beauty; to truth itself I gave what is false no less than what is true as its rightful province, and showed that the false and the true are merely forms of intellectual existence. I treated art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me. I summed up all systems in a phrase and all existence in an epigram.
***
The Contents of "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H
And Other Stories".
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
The Sphinx Without a Secret
The Canterville Ghost
The Model Millionaire
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
A Florentine Tragedy
***
ILLUSTRATIONS.
LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME.
"His spectacles seemed almost to touch the palm."
THE SPHINX WITHOUT A SECRET.
"Can't you tell the truth?' I exclaimed."
THE CANTERVILLE GHOST.
"A large pillow whizzed past his head."
***
The body of literary work left by Oscar Wilde for appraisement by a dispassionate posterity is not large. What there is of it is distributed among so many of the forms of literary expression that one is almost puzzled whether to consider him as poet, essayist, novelist, epigrammatist, or dramatist. Yet there is enough of each kind so excellent in quality that one is obliged to believe that Wilde would have been distinguished as great in any one of the forms had he devoted his genius to it.
Indeed, there are many who concede to him the title of poet on "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" alone. Others there are who deem the author of "Dorian Gray" and "The Happy Prince," a born tale-teller. Others again instance "Intentions" and "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" as the essays of a critical genius. Still others point to "Salome" and the society plays as the creative work of a master dramatist—so extraordinary was the versatility of this remarkable man.
At a time of retrospection when he was writing of his own life and emptying his heart of its sorrow, Wilde looked back on what he had done and pride rose up in him to move him to exclaim:
"I made art a philosophy and philosophy an art: I altered the minds of men and the colors of things: there was nothing I said or did that did not make people wonder. I took the drama, the most objective form known to art, and made it as personal a mode of expression as the lyric or sonnet: at the same time I widened its range and enriched its characterization. Drama, novel, poem in prose, poem in rhyme, subtle or fantastic dialogue, whatever I touched I made beautiful in a new mode of beauty; to truth itself I gave what is false no less than what is true as its rightful province, and showed that the false and the true are merely forms of intellectual existence. I treated art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction. I awoke the imagination of my century so that it created myth and legend around me. I summed up all systems in a phrase and all existence in an epigram.
***
The Contents of "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H
And Other Stories".
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
The Sphinx Without a Secret
The Canterville Ghost
The Model Millionaire
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
A Florentine Tragedy
***
ILLUSTRATIONS.
LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME.
"His spectacles seemed almost to touch the palm."
THE SPHINX WITHOUT A SECRET.
"Can't you tell the truth?' I exclaimed."
THE CANTERVILLE GHOST.
"A large pillow whizzed past his head."
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| BN ID: | 2940013584228 |
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| Publisher: | OGB |
| Publication date: | 11/14/2011 |
| Series: | The Works of Oscar Wilde – Edition de Luxe , #1 |
| Sold by: | Barnes & Noble |
| Format: | eBook |
| File size: | 592 KB |
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