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Complete Short Fiction (Oscar Wilde) by Oscar Wilde
$17.99 AUD
Category: black penguin classics | Series: Classics Ser.
The complete short stories of the masterful Irish writer Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners--the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styles. Victorian moral just ...Show more
De Profundis And Other Prison Writings by Oscar Wilde
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Category: black penguin classics
"De Profundis and Other Prison Writings" is a new selection of Oscar Wilde's prison letters and poetry in "Penguin Classics", edited and introduced by Colm Toibin. At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde was the toast of London, widely feted for his most recent stage success, "An Ideal Husband". But by May of ...Show more
The Happy Prince & Other Tales by Oscar Wilde
$39.99 AUD
Category: classics
Oscar Wilde’s children’s stories explore timeless themes of good and evil, freedom and responsibility, love and death, beauty and self-sacrifice. Featuring princesses, ogres and talking animals, the questions they pose are as pertinent now as they were at the turn of the century. What is love? asks ‘The ...Show more
The Happy Prince and Other Stories: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
$14.99 AUD
Category: classics | Series: Popular Penguins
In this haunting, magical fairytale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little children and the Star Child who did not love his parents as much as he should. Each of the stories shines with poetr ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays (Macmillan Collector's Library) by Oscar Wilde
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Category: macmillan collector's library | Series: Macmillan Collector's Library
Oscar Wilde was already one of the best-known literary figures in Britain when he was persuaded to turn his extraordinary talents to the theatre. Between 1891 and 1895 he produced a sequence of distinctive plays which spearheaded the dramatic renaissance of the 1890s and retain their power today. This c ...Show more
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays by Oscar Wilde
$22.99 AUD
Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation. Includes Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, A Florentine Tragedy and ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: macmillan collector's library | 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
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: classics | Series: The Penguin English Library
The Penguin English Library Edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde. 'I am jealous of everything whose beauty does not die. I am jealous of the portrait you have painted of me ... Why did you paint it? It will mock me some day - mock me horribly!' A story of evil, debauchery and scandal, Os ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: classics | Series: Clothbound Classics
The Picture of Dorian Gray was a succès de scandale. Early readers were shocked by its hints at unspeakable sins and the book was later used as evidence against Wilde at the Old Bailey in 1895. Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray makes a Faustian bargain to sell his soul in exchange f ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
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Category: black penguin classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double life; indulging his desires in secret while remaining a gentleman in the eyes of polite society. Only his portrait bears th ...Show more
The Picture of Dorian Gray: Popular Penguins by Oscar Wilde
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Category: classics | Series: Popular Penguins
Oscar Wilde's The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a man who makes a devilish pact never to grow old. Dorian Gray remains forever young, indulging in unspeakable pleasures while his portrait bears the mark of his corrupt existence. A beautifully decadent tale of the destructive allure of perpetual ...Show more