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    Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde

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    This selection of essays by Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) demonstrate the varied power of his genius. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these writings show that beneath his trademark wit and love of paradox, Oscar Wilde was an original and remarkably modern writer.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNotting Hill Editions
    Release dateJun 6, 2016
    ISBN9781910749852
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    Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde
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    Oscar Wilde

    Born in Ireland in 1856, Oscar Wilde was a noted essayist, playwright, fairy tale writer and poet, as well as an early leader of the Aesthetic Movement. His plays include: An Ideal Husband, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, and Lady Windermere's Fan. Among his best known stories are The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Canterville Ghost.

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