The selection includes "The Portrait of Mr. W.H.", the defense of "Dorian Gray", reviews, and writings from "Intentions" (1891): "The Decay of Lying", "Pen, Pencil, Poison", and "The Critic as Artist". Oscar Wilde is known as the ironic critic behind the social comedies, as the creator of the beautiful and doomed Dorian Gray, as the flamboyant aesthete, and as the infamous homosexual. This volume presents us with a different Wilde. Here Wilde emerges as a profound and serious reader of literature and philosophy, as well as a lyrical and original thinker on society and art.

Pages: 416, Dimensions: 12.9x12.9cm