The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

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Lord Henry elevated his eyebrows and looked at him in amazement through the thin blue wreaths of smoke that curled up in such fanciful whorls from his heavy, opium-tainted cigarette. Yes, continued Lord Henry, that is one of the great secrets of life—to cure the soul by means of the senses, and the senses by means of the soul. And now, Dorian, get up on the platform, and don’t move about too much, or pay any attention to what Lord Henry says. Just turn your head a little more to the right, Dorian, like a good boy, said the painter, deep in his work and conscious only that a look had come into the lad’s face that he had never seen there before.

The largest collection of Wilde's letters, manuscripts, and other material relating to his literary circle are housed at the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library. Each class would have preached the importance of those virtues, for whose exercise there was no necessity in their own lives. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. I just struggled with 'An Ideal Husband', predictable, too long, and tiring for its feel of déja vu. The reason I will not exhibit this picture is that I am afraid that I have shown in it the secret of my own soul.If one puts forward an idea to a true Englishman—always a rash thing to do—he never dreams of considering whether the idea is right or wrong. Being natural is simply a pose, and the most irritating pose I know, cried Lord Henry, laughing; and the two young men went out into the garden together and ensconced themselves on a long bamboo seat that stood in the shade of a tall laurel bush. Anyways, thank you Oscar, for all of the 1,114 pages of published writing I’ve read in the past 5 weeks. Okay, as recently, I'm mopping up some titles from "To Read Short Fiction Lists", genre and lit, and as I'm in the W's. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things.

These kind of essays/arguments *are* important - it *was* important that someone had them and they *remain* important as records of thought processes, as we try to move forward - except we don't seem to be moving forward very much and those records seem to be ignored, as we seem to JUST KEEP HAVING the same binary us/them, good/bad stupid/reductive arguments over and over again even centuries later (just recently, in my life in fact). To support his family, Oscar accepted a job as the editor of Woman’s World magazine, where he worked from 1887-1889. Next, came the poems; the reader isn’t a big fan of poetry and so some really didn’t resonate with them, but they read quickly. A comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Oscar Wilde together with a chronological table of his life and work are also included. This had much to do with the novel’s homoerotic overtones, which caused something of a sensation amongst Victorian critics.By arrangement with the trade publisher, Methuen, 195 copies (and five "presentation and reference copies") were published as an "autographed limited de luxe edition" which appeared simultaneously with the trade impression.