Gathers hundreds of the acclaimed writer's pithiest utterances and epigrams in a collection of late nineteenth-century wisdom that includes such quotations as, ""Resist everything except temptation.""
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The plays, novels, essays, letters, and bons mots of Oscar Wilde formone of the most extraordinary bodies of work in the Englishlanguage--brilliant, witty, full of wicked insight and dazzling turns ofphrase. Oscar Wilde's Guide to Modern Living gathers hundreds of thewriter's pithiest utterances and epigrams in a collection of latenineteenth-century wisdom that has an uncanny relevance to the late twentieth.Whether holding forth on morality ("Simply the attitude we adopt towardspersons we dislike"), education ("Nothing worth knowing can be taught"),criticism ("The highest form of autobiography"), or the Pope ("I was deeplyimpressed, and my walking stick showed signs of budding"), Wilde's voice ringswith the unique imagination and keen intelligence that continued to hisdeathbed ("It's the wallpaper or me. One of us has to go") and sounds amazinglyfresh and current today.
Pungent, provocative, and fiendishly funny, Oscar Wilde's Guide to ModernLiving is an essential resource for anyone navigating the dangerous watersof modern life.
Copyright 1996 by John Calvin Batchelor and Craig McNeer.
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Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford where, a disciple of Pater, he founded an aesthetic cult. In 1884 he married Constance Lloyd, and his two sons were born in 1885 and 1886.
His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and social comedies Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), established his reputation. In 1895, following his libel action against the Marquess of Queesberry, Wilde was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for homosexual conduct, as a result of which he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), and his confessional letter De Profundis (1905). On his release from prison in 1897 he lived in obscurity in Europe, and died in Paris in 1900.
His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and social comedies Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), established his reputation. In 1895, following his libel action against the Marquess of Queesberry, Wilde was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for homosexual conduct, as a result of which he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), and his confessional letter De Profundis (1905). On his release from prison in 1897 he lived in obscurity in Europe, and died in Paris in 1900.
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