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Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde''s defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from ''Intentions'' (1891): ''The Decay of Lying, ''Pen, Pencil, Poison'', and ''The Critic as Artist''.
Wilde is familiar to us as the ironic critic behind the social comedies, as the creator of the beautiful and doomed Dorian Gray, as the flamboyant aesthete and the demonised homosexual. This volume presents us with a different Wilde. Wilde emerges here as a deep and serious reader of literature and philosophy, and an eloquent and original thinker about society and art.



Table of Contents
The Soul of Man under Socialism and Selected Critical ProseIntroduction
Note on the Texts
Eight Reviews (1885-90)
1. Mr. Whistler's Ten o'Clock
2. The Relation of Dress to Art
3. A Sentimental Journey through Literature
4. Mr. Pater's Imaginary Portraits
5. [The Actor as Critic]
6. Poetical Socialists
7. Mr. Swinburne's Last Volume
8. Mr. Pater's Last Volume

The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (expanded version 1889)

In Defence of Dorian Gray (1890-91)

The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

Intentions (1891)
1. The Decay of Lying
2. Pen, Pencil and Poison
3. The Critic as Artist - Part I
The Critic as Artist - Part II
4. The Truth of Masks

Notes
Further Reading

The Soul of Man Under Socialism

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Penguin Classics
      Published 30 August 2001
      ISBN-13 9780140433876
      978-0140433876
      ISBN-10 0140433872
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      Biography Essays Books by Oscar Wilde

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde''s defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from ''Intentions'' (1891): ''The Decay of Lying, ''Pen, Pencil, Poison'', and ''The Critic as Artist''.
      Wilde is familiar to us as the ironic critic behind the social comedies, as the creator of the beautiful and doomed Dorian Gray, as the flamboyant aesthete and the demonised homosexual. This volume presents us with a different Wilde. Wilde emerges here as a deep and serious reader of literature and philosophy, and an eloquent and original thinker about society and art.



      Table of Contents
      The Soul of Man under Socialism and Selected Critical ProseIntroduction
      Note on the Texts
      Eight Reviews (1885-90)
      1. Mr. Whistler's Ten o'Clock
      2. The Relation of Dress to Art
      3. A Sentimental Journey through Literature
      4. Mr. Pater's Imaginary Portraits
      5. [The Actor as Critic]
      6. Poetical Socialists
      7. Mr. Swinburne's Last Volume
      8. Mr. Pater's Last Volume

      The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (expanded version 1889)

      In Defence of Dorian Gray (1890-91)

      The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)

      Intentions (1891)
      1. The Decay of Lying
      2. Pen, Pencil and Poison
      3. The Critic as Artist - Part I
      The Critic as Artist - Part II
      4. The Truth of Masks

      Notes
      Further Reading

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