Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde

ISBN-13: 9781595403377 / Angielski / Miękka / 2004 / 156 str.

Oscar Wilde

Opis

Purchase one of 1st World Librarys Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. 1st World Library-Literary Society is a non-profit educational organization. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - With the possible exceptions of the Greek Anthology, the "Golden Treasury" and those which bear the name of E. V. Lucas, no selections of poetry or prose have ever given complete satisfaction to anyone except the compiler. But critics derive great satisfaction from pointing out errors of omission and inclusion on the part of the anthologist, and all of us have putatively re-arranged and re-edited even the "Golden Treasury" in our leisure moments. In an age when "Art for Arts sake" is an exploded doctrine, anthologies, like every-thing else, must have a purpose. The purpose or object of the present volume is to afford admirers of Wildes work the same innocent pleasure obtainable from similar compilations, namely that of reconstructing a selection of their own in their minds eye - for copyright considerations would interfere with the materialisation of their dream.