The Portable Oscar Wilde Author:Oscar Wilde, Richard Aldington, Stanley Weintraub "I treated art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction." Even as he celebrated the artificial and raised frivolity to an art form, Oscar Wilde was creating a new vocabulary of artistic expression -- one that was witty and elegant and genuinely subversive in its assault on moral imperatives. — In this marvelously inclus... more »ive anthology, Richard Aldington and Stanley Weintraub present the most quotable and influential of Wilde's writings. The novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray", and the plays "Salome" and "The Importance of Being Earnest" are included here in their entirety, along with the complete, unexpurgated text of the prison memoir "De Profundis". In addition there are selections from the comedies "Lady Windermere's Fan", "A Woman of No Importance", and "An Ideal Husband"; reviews, poems, fairy tales that Wilde originally wrote for his children, the dialogue "The Critic as Artist", letters, and the sardonic manifesto "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young".« less
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