All prose and dramatic works of "the most international of all Britons", the writer who achieved worldwide fame, the classic of English and world literature Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), are collected in one volume. A symbolist, decadent, master of an effective...
plot, popularizer of art and inventor of aesthetic-religious dogmas, who placed "aesthetics above ethics", a person whose work was addressed to "the crowd of connoisseurs, rather than a narrow circle of snobs", today continues to inspire admiration for his multifaceted talent among all lovers of words. Three famous poems by Oscar Wilde are included in the appendix: "The Sphinx", "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", and "Ravenna".
All prose and dramatic works of "the most international of all Britons", the writer who achieved worldwide fame, the classic of English and world literature Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), are collected in one volume. A symbolist, decadent, master of an effective plot, popularizer of art and inventor of aesthetic-religious dogmas, who placed "aesthetics above ethics", a person whose work was addressed to "the crowd of connoisseurs, rather than a narrow circle of snobs", today continues to inspire admiration for his multifaceted talent among all lovers of words. Three famous poems by Oscar Wilde are included in the appendix: "The Sphinx", "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", and "Ravenna".