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The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 5.95A beautiful young man, Dorian Gray, sits for a portrait. In the garden of the artist's house he falls into conversation with Lord Wotton, who convinces him that only beauty is worth pursuing. Gray wishes that his portrait, and not himself, might age and show the effects of time. His wish comes true, and wild, hedonistic pursuits horribly disfigure... more...
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 5.95The Importance of Being Earnest is the last play Oscar Wilde ever wrote, and remains his most enduringly popular. It makes fun of social graces in the late Victorian era. Two seemingly unrelated parties are thrown into ridiculous entanglement when their fake identities, maintained in order to escape social responsibilities, grow ever more complicated... more...
Being Oscar
Weinstein Publishing 2013; US$ 26.00In BEING OSCAR, Oscar Goodman recounts the stories and cases of his epic life as one of America?s most celebrated criminal defense attorneys. more...
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
The Floating Press 1910; US$ 5.99Oscar Wilde's The Happy Prince and Other Tales is a collection of stories for children each of which is so poignant and exquisite that they are as treasured by adults as they are by children. The stories included in this collection are: The Happy Prince. The Nightingale and the Rose. The Selfish Giant. The Devoted Friend. The Remarkable Rocket more...
An Ideal Husband
The Floating Press 2008; US$ 5.95Oscar Wilde's play An Ideal Husband is a comedy about politics, blackmail and corruption. The action takes place over three days in London, and it questions ideas of public and private honor. It is a play about the past catching up with one in the present. more...
The Soul of Man under Socialism
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 3.95The Soul of Man under Socialism is an 1891 essay by Oscar Wilde. Wilde puts forth the argument that within a capitalist system "the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism - are forced, indeed, so to spoil them" - that the necessity of solving the problems that capitalism creates draws away the talent... more...
Lady Windermere's Fan
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 5.95Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good Woman is a play by Oscar Wilde, who uses his sharp wit to satirize Victorian ideals about marriage. Lady Windemere suspects her husband of infidelity and retaliates by taking a lover. Her husband's suspected lover follows her, begging her to return to Lord Windemere. The lover sacrifices her own reputation... more...
Essays and Lectures
The Floating Press 2009; US$ 6.95Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) is remembered best for his sharp wit, his comedic plays and for his contribution to aestheticism and decadence. In this collection of essays, however, Wilde writes predominantly on socialism, anarchy and libertarianism. He believed in these passionately and was influenced among others by William Morris and John Ruskin. more...
Intentions
The Floating Press 1913; US$ 4.99Oscar Wilde was one of the most successful playwrights of the Victorian era. He was also a notorious supporter of the decadence and aesthetic movements, eventually jailed for having a young male lover. His name remains a by-word for social commentary by sharp wit. Intentions is a collection of critical essays by Wilde including The Critic as artist,... more...
Die Gliederung des Norgermanischen
Narr Francke Attempto 2011; US$ 42.39Hauptbeschreibung Bei diesem nach fast 40 Jahren erstmals wieder aufgelegten, zuvor vergriffenen Übersichtswerk handelt es sich um die bislang letzte Summa der traditionellen (europäischen) Dialektologie, die zum skandinavischen Raum als Ganzem vorliegt und die eine zusammenhängende wie auch eigenständige Sichtweise präsentiert. Oskar Bandles Buch,... more...
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