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Nonfiction · 1908

Essays and Lectures

Oscar Wilde

Reading time
about 4 h
Length
52,314 words · 94 pages
Structure
10 chapters · 3 front-matter sections
Language
English
Era
Victorian

Essays and Lectures, first published in 1908, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.

Contents

  1. Dedication
  2. Preface
  3. The Rise of Historical Criticism
  4. The Rise of Historical Criticism — Part I
  5. The Rise of Historical Criticism — Part II
  6. The Rise of Historical Criticism — Part III
  7. The Rise of Historical Criticism — Part IV
  8. The English Renaissance of Art
  9. House Decoration
  10. Lecture to Art Students
  11. London Models
  12. Poems in Prose
  13. Footnotes

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Oscar Wilde

1854–1900 · Victorian

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was born in Dublin, studied at Trinity College and at Oxford, and became the most celebrated wit of late-Victorian London. The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890–91), Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest (both 1895) made his reputation. In 1895 he was convicted of gross indecency and served two years’ hard labour; De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol came out of the experience. He died in Paris.

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