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For Love of the King

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Oscar Wilde's For Love of the King unfolds as a lush, dreamlike Burmese masque, where courtly splendor, sensual beauty, and melancholy fate are bound together from the first scene. Set in sixteenth-century Burma, it centers on the young King Meng Beng, his ministers, and the mysterious Shah Mah Phru, a captivating outsider of half-Italian, half-Burmese heritage whose presence deepens the play's ... Read more

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Oscar Wilde's For Love of the King unfolds as a lush, dreamlike Burmese masque, where courtly splendor, sensual beauty, and melancholy fate are bound together from the first scene. Set in sixteenth-century Burma, it centers on the young King Meng Beng, his ministers, and the mysterious Shah Mah Phru, a captivating outsider of half-Italian, half-Burmese heritage whose presence deepens the play's
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Essays and Lectures

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Oscar Wilde's essays, lectures, and prose pieces reveal a writer equally at home in scholarship, satire, and imaginative lyricism. Across reflections on art, criticism, craftsmanship, and the London art world, he celebrates beauty, originality, and the "artistic moment" while questioning the limits of mere prettiness and pose. A witty portrait of artists' models exposes the practical machinery ... Read more

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Oscar Wilde's essays, lectures, and prose pieces reveal a writer equally at home in scholarship, satire, and imaginative lyricism. Across reflections on art, criticism, craftsmanship, and the London art world, he celebrates beauty, originality, and the "artistic moment" while questioning the limits of mere prettiness and pose. A witty portrait of artists' models exposes the practical machinery
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De Profundis

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This prison meditation is a fierce act of self-examination, sorrow, and rebirth. Trapped in repetition and humiliation, the speaker grieves his mother, mourns the disgrace brought on his name, and finds rare consolation in a fellow prisoner's kindness. Yet from confinement he draws a hard-won humility, stripping away bitterness and insisting that no suffering is wasted if it can be absorbed into ... Read more

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This prison meditation is a fierce act of self-examination, sorrow, and rebirth. Trapped in repetition and humiliation, the speaker grieves his mother, mourns the disgrace brought on his name, and finds rare consolation in a fellow prisoner's kindness. Yet from confinement he draws a hard-won humility, stripping away bitterness and insisting that no suffering is wasted if it can be absorbed into
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Impressions of America

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Oscar Wilde's "Impressions of America" emerges here as far more than a travel account: it is a sparkling blend of lecture, performance, and social satire, shaped by the celebrity Wilde drew during his 1881–82 American tour. The narrative follows him through packed lectures, journalist encounters, and delighted audiences across the United States and Canada, capturing the comic fascination he ... Read more

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Oscar Wilde's "Impressions of America" emerges here as far more than a travel account: it is a sparkling blend of lecture, performance, and social satire, shaped by the celebrity Wilde drew during his 1881–82 American tour. The narrative follows him through packed lectures, journalist encounters, and delighted audiences across the United States and Canada, capturing the comic fascination he
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A Florentine Tragedy

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This volume gathers Oscar Wilde's dramatic works in all their brilliance, controversy, and incompletion, opening with a confident defense of art's endurance against criticism and scandal. It argues that true works survive hostility and passing fashion, and Wilde's own reputation is presented as proof. The book then revisits Salomé, tracing its first condemnation, censorship, and misunderstanding ... Read more

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This volume gathers Oscar Wilde's dramatic works in all their brilliance, controversy, and incompletion, opening with a confident defense of art's endurance against criticism and scandal. It argues that true works survive hostility and passing fashion, and Wilde's own reputation is presented as proof. The book then revisits Salomé, tracing its first condemnation, censorship, and misunderstanding
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Intentions

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Oscar Wilde's Intensions is a dazzling collection of critical essays in which wit, paradox, and aesthetic philosophy turn literary argument into performance. Across "The Decay of Lying," "Pen, Pencil, and Poison," "The Critic as Artist," and "The Truth of Masks," Wilde explores art, criticism, creativity, morality, and the power of appearances to shape meaning, inviting readers into a sparkling ... Read more

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Oscar Wilde's Intensions is a dazzling collection of critical essays in which wit, paradox, and aesthetic philosophy turn literary argument into performance. Across "The Decay of Lying," "Pen, Pencil, and Poison," "The Critic as Artist," and "The Truth of Masks," Wilde explores art, criticism, creativity, morality, and the power of appearances to shape meaning, inviting readers into a sparkling
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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 2

by Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, E. E. Cummings, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Daniel Defoe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Victor Hugo ...

Continue your journey through the world's most enduring literary masterpieces. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol. 2 brings together another diverse selection of classic works by influential authors from different eras and literary traditions. From romantic stories and dramatic novels to gripping adventures, mysterious tales, philosophical works, and unforgettable explorations of ... Read more

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Continue your journey through the world's most enduring literary masterpieces. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol. 2 brings together another diverse selection of classic works by influential authors from different eras and literary traditions. From romantic stories and dramatic novels to gripping adventures, mysterious tales, philosophical works, and unforgettable explorations of
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The Happy Prince and other Tales (A2 level)

by Oscar Wilde, Lara Miquel Brecia, Lorena Gálvez Conrado ...

In this collection of five classic stories by Oscar Wilde, the world is full of magic, but it is also full of choices. You will meet a golden statue and a brave bird who try to save a city from poverty. You will see a Nightingale give everything for a red rose, and a Giant who learns that his garden is only beautiful when it is shared with others. ... Read more

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In this collection of five classic stories by Oscar Wilde, the world is full of magic, but it is also full of choices. You will meet a golden statue and a brave bird who try to save a city from poverty. You will see a Nightingale give everything for a red rose, and a Giant who learns that his garden is only beautiful when it is shared with others.
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50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die vol: 1

by Louisa May Alcott, Jane Austen, Joseph Conrad, D. H. Lawrence, George Eliot, Leo Tolstoy, James Joyce, Charles Dickens, Bram Stoker, Oscar Wilde, Honoré de Balzac, Edgar Rice Burroughs, Anne Brontë, Charlotte Brontë, Emily Brontë, Lewis Carroll, Willa Cather, Miguel de Cervantes, E. E. Cummings, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Daniel Defoe, Arthur Conan Doyle, Alexandre Dumas, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Victor Hugo ...

Discover the timeless stories that have shaped literature across generations. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol. 1 brings together a diverse selection of classic literary works from some of the world's most influential authors. From unforgettable romances and thrilling adventures to haunting mysteries, philosophical works, dramatic stories, and imaginative fiction, this ... Read more

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Discover the timeless stories that have shaped literature across generations. 50 Masterpieces You Have to Read Before You Die Vol. 1 brings together a diverse selection of classic literary works from some of the world's most influential authors. From unforgettable romances and thrilling adventures to haunting mysteries, philosophical works, dramatic stories, and imaginative fiction, this
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30 Occult and Supernatural masterpieces in one book

by Washington Irving, Mary Shelley, Charles Dickens, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell, Louisa May Alcott, Oscar Wilde, Rudyard Kipling, Edith Nesbit, John Meade Falkner, Henry James, H. G. Wells, Montague Rhodes James, Arnold Bennett, Henry Rider Haggard, William Hope Hodgson, Virginia Woolf ...

Enter a world where ghosts walk, ancient forces awaken, and the impossible becomes terrifyingly real. 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces in One Book brings together a collection of classic stories exploring the darkest corners of the supernatural imagination. Inside, readers encounter ghostly apparitions, haunted houses, mysterious rituals, occult practices, strange creatures, supernatural ... Read more

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Enter a world where ghosts walk, ancient forces awaken, and the impossible becomes terrifyingly real. 30 Occult & Supernatural Masterpieces in One Book brings together a collection of classic stories exploring the darkest corners of the supernatural imagination. Inside, readers encounter ghostly apparitions, haunted houses, mysterious rituals, occult practices, strange creatures, supernatural
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Vera

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Oscar Wilde's Vera; or, The Nihilists plunges into late imperial Russia, where censorship, oppression, and revolutionary terror turn private grief into public violence. In a remote inn, Vera Sabouroff's compassion for a chain of prisoners shatters when she discovers that one of them is her missing brother Dmitri, imprisoned for Nihilist beliefs. His revelation, and the oath he leaves behind, drive ... Read more

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Oscar Wilde's Vera; or, The Nihilists plunges into late imperial Russia, where censorship, oppression, and revolutionary terror turn private grief into public violence. In a remote inn, Vera Sabouroff's compassion for a chain of prisoners shatters when she discovers that one of them is her missing brother Dmitri, imprisoned for Nihilist beliefs. His revelation, and the oath he leaves behind, drive
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An Ideal Husband

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In Oscar Wilde's glittering London society, polished manners hide ruthless ambition and dangerous secrets. Sir Robert Chiltern, a celebrated statesman, finds his reputation and marriage threatened by the mysterious Mrs. Cheveley, whose arrival exposes the brittle gap between public virtue and private truth. Around them move Lord Goring, a brilliantly witty bachelor, Lady Chiltern, who demands ... Read more

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In Oscar Wilde's glittering London society, polished manners hide ruthless ambition and dangerous secrets. Sir Robert Chiltern, a celebrated statesman, finds his reputation and marriage threatened by the mysterious Mrs. Cheveley, whose arrival exposes the brittle gap between public virtue and private truth. Around them move Lord Goring, a brilliantly witty bachelor, Lady Chiltern, who demands
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