The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical ProseSelection 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'. |
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... Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation, confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his society ...
... Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation, confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his society ...
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... Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to ...
... Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to ...
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... Lord Alfred Douglas, the beautiful but forbidden son of the Marquess of Queensberry, then suing Queensberry for libel, at a time when Wilde's own life, with its reckless forays into the underworld of homosexual prostitutes, could hardly ...
... Lord Alfred Douglas, the beautiful but forbidden son of the Marquess of Queensberry, then suing Queensberry for libel, at a time when Wilde's own life, with its reckless forays into the underworld of homosexual prostitutes, could hardly ...
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... Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray, who 'played with the idea, and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox'. Or Lord ...
... Lord Henry Wotton in The Picture of Dorian Gray, who 'played with the idea, and grew wilful; tossed it into the air and transformed it; let it escape and recaptured it; made it iridescent with fancy, and winged it with paradox'. Or Lord ...
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... Lord Alfred Douglas would be found so dismally to fail. For Douglas, whose mind ultimately proved incapable of rising to the level of ideas, could provide only 'an unintellectual friendship', a bond which became, Wilde bitterly ...
... Lord Alfred Douglas would be found so dismally to fail. For Douglas, whose mind ultimately proved incapable of rising to the level of ideas, could provide only 'an unintellectual friendship', a bond which became, Wilde bitterly ...
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