This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wilde's poetry and prose short stories, plays, critical dialogues and his only novel - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Oscar Wilde's dramatic private life has sometimes threatened to ov...
This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wilde's poetry and prose short stories, plays, critical dialogues and his only novel - to give the essence of his work and thinking. Oscar Wilde's dramatic private life has sometimes threatened to overshadow his great literary achievements. His talent was prodigious: the author of brilliant social comedies, fairy stories, critical dialogues, poems, and a novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray. In addition to Dorian Gray, this volume represents all these genres, including such works as Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest, 'The Happy Prince', 'The Critic as Artist', and 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The first duty in life is to be as artificial as possible. What the second duty is no one has as yet discovered.
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Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others.
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Those who see any difference between soul and body have neither.
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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves.
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Dullness is the coming of age of seriousness.
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In all unimportant matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential. In all important matters, style, not sincerity, is the essential.
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Pleasure is the only thing one should live for. Nothing ages like happiness.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime. Vulgarity is the conduct of others.
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Only the shallow know themselves.
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Time is waste of money.
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One should always be a little impr... (查看原文)
Education is an admirable thing. But it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.
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Public opinion exists only where there are no ideas.
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The English are always degrading truths into facts. When a truth becomes a fact it loses all its intellectual value.
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It is a very sad thing that nowadays there is so little useless information.
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In old days books were written by men of letters and read by the public. Nowadays books are written by the public and read by nobody.
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Most women are so artificial that they have no sense of Art. Most men are so natural that they have no sense of Beauty.
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Friendship is far more tragic than love. It lasts longer.
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What is abnormal in Life stands in normal relations to Art. It is the only thing in Life that stand... (查看原文)
1 有用 allday2k 2013-05-27 00:17:10
"Art conceals the artist far more completely than it ever reveals him."
0 有用 桑塔兰泰拉 2010-05-11 13:17:53
The Picture of Dorian Gray, a masterpiece
0 有用 推拿技师 2023-04-21 20:28:50 四川
很遗憾，王尔德在我这里只能勉强算个投机取巧的二流作家
0 有用 Diana 2014-05-23 00:57:47
在图书馆借了又借，文学导读的论文要写他，自从看完the picture of dorian gray之后就爱Wilde爱到不能自拔。