Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince and Other Tales; Lord Arthur Saville's Crime and Other Prose Pieces (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 133299945X ISBN 13: 9781332999453

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2016

Synopsis

Excerpt from Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The Happy Prince and Other Tales; Lord Arthur Saville's Crime and Other Prose Pieces

He looks just like an angel,' said the Charity Children as they came out of the cathedral in their bright scarlet cloaks and their clean white pinafores.

How do you know? Said the Mathematical Master, you have never seen one.' Ah! But we have, in our dreams,' answered the children; and the Mathematical Master frowned and looked very severe, for he did not approve of children dreaming.

One night there flew over the city a little Swallow. His friends had gone away to Egypt six weeks before, but he had stayed behind, for he was in love with the most beautiful Reed. He had met her early in the spring as he was flying down the river after a big yellow moth, and had been so attracted by her slender waist that he had stopped to talk to her.

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Review:

The appearance of this first volume in the new Oxford series of Wilde's complete works is a significant event for all students of the writer. For the first time, all Wilde's known surviving poems are collected together, including twenty-one which were not published during his lifetime (Review of Engish Studies)

The editorial apparatus is meticulous and exhaustive ... As ancillary evidence for Wilde's later importance as a major cultural phenomenon, they [the poems] will reward more serious attention from scholars than they have previously received, and to that end this edition will deservedly become a standard work (Review of Engish Studies)

From the Back Cover:

Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins 'Complete Works of Oscar Wilde' has long been established as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume collection of Wilde's work available, containing his only novel, ' The Pictures of Dorian Gray', as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts. This new and expanded edition now includes

· all the plays and stories
· additional essays and poems
· newly commissioned introductions to each section by Merlin Holland, Owen Dudley Edwards, Declan Kiberd and Terence Brown
· a chronological table of Oscar Wilde's life and work

This book retains the 1966 general introduction by Oscar Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland, with a new introduction by his grandson, Merlin Holland. Also included is a comprehensive biography of works by and about Oscar Wilde.

About this edition

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 133299945X
• ISBN 13: 9781332999453
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 364