A celebration of the virtuoso of well-turned phrases and the master of the studied insult with this collection of his most acerbic quips.
Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854.
He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College,
Oxford where, a disciple of Pater, he founded an aesthetic cult. In
1884 he married Constance Lloyd, and his two sons were born in 1885
and 1886.
His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and social comedies
Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An
Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895),
established his reputation. In 1895, following his libel action
against the Marquess of Queesberry, Wilde was sentenced to two
years' imprisonment for homosexual conduct, as a result of which he
wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), and his confessional
letter De Profundis (1905). On his release from prison in 1897 he
lived in obscurity in Europe, and died in Paris in 1900.
An elegant collection of Wilde's finest witticisms ... features
hundreds of acerbic and razor-sharp quotations from the iconic
writer, gathered according to themes
*Irish World*
Marvel at Wilde's finest witticisms, aphorisms, paradoxes and
ironic remarks in this accessible and elegantly organized
collection
*Mature Times*
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