Oscar Wilde: Selected Poems - Couverture rigide

Wilde, Oscar

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0753816628 ISBN 13 : 9780753816622

Editeur : Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ), 2003

Synopsis

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 paperback and this hardback edition. Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume collection of Wilde's texts available, containing his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts. Illustrated with many fascinating photographs, the book includes introductions to each section by Merlin Holland (Oscar's grandson), Owen Dudley Edwards, Declan Kiberd and Terence Brown. Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Oscar Wilde, and a chronological table of his life and work.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

With an introduction by J. H. Stape, St. Mary s University College, Strawberry Hill. Written in 1910 and first privately published in New York in 1916, Frank Harris s Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions gained almost instant notoriety. Attacked by critics for its extravagant inventions, vigorously defended by George Bernard Shaw and hauled into court for libel by Wilde s friend and lover, Lord Alfred Douglas, Harris s biography was published in England only in 1938. Famously inaccurate and lavishly self-serving, Harris s study none the less offers a highly evocative portrait of a compelling personality or rather of two personalities, for Harris never shies from enlarging upon his roles as Wilde s defender, adviser, and sometime friend. Impressionistic, vivid and well-paced, Harris s intimate account of Wilde s rise and fall will fascinate anyone with an interest in a dramatist and poet whose tempestuous, and ultimately tragic, life was his true major work. A serious contender, as one commentator put it, if there were an Olympic gold for lying, Harris provides as near as one gets in biography to a page-turner .

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Phoenix (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd )
• Date d'édition: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0753816628
• ISBN 13: 9780753816622
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 128