The two works brought together here, 'The Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist', are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound writings on aesthetics, in which he proposes that criticism is the highest... Zobraziť viac
In The Critic as Artist—arguably the most complete exploration of his aesthetic thinking, and certainly the most entertaining—Oscar Wilde harnesses his famous wit to demolish the supposed boundary between art and criticism... Zobraziť viac
Zápisky z vězení významného irského spisovatele a jeho intimní korespondence. Jedná se o Wildeovu zpověď i obranu, proti nespravedlnosti a nelidskosti anglických zákonů a celému trestnímu systému, který ho za homosexualitu odsoudil k dvouletému vězení... Zobraziť viac
"I thought life was going to be a brilliant comedy, and you were to be one of the many graceful figures in it." While imprisoned in 1895-7 for "gross indecency", the brilliant poet and playwright Oscar Wilde wrote a long, impassioned letter to his... Zobraziť viac
