"Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates life." The two works collected here, "The Decay of Lying" and "The Critic as Artist," are Oscar Wilde's most intelligent and profound writings on aesthetics, where he proposes that criticism is the highest form of creation and that lying, the telling of a beautiful untruth, is the ultimate goal of art. One of the twenty new books in the Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse list of thinkers who have contributed to shaping our world today, from anarchists to stoics, feminists to prophets, satirists to Zen Buddhists.

Pages: 144, Dimensions: 11x11cm