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Wilde, Oscar

 
9780486270722: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems

Synopsis

Book by Wilde Oscar

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Twenty-four important works, focusing on Wilde's poetic legacy, offer important clues to themes and subjects that preoccupied this gifted writer in other works. Includes The Ballad of Reading Gaol, a powerful indictment of the degradation and inhumanity of prison life; ""The Sphinx,"" ""The Grave of Keats,"" ""The Harlot's House,"" and 20 others.

Biographie de l'auteur

Wit, intellectual, aesthete and raconteur, Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. His writing - including children's stories, poetry, philosophical essays, a novel and several hugely popular plays - made him the greatest celebrity of his day, and he remains one of the world's most frequently-quoted and well-loved writers.

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