Oscar Wilde's infamous wit, taste for scandal, and gift for revealing the hypocrisies of fashionable society are on display here in this collection of his finest plays. A genius both of and ahead of his time, he built his craft on the eternal questions of right and wrong--with pithy dialogue as fres
Wilde Style: The Plays and Prose of Oscar Wildeby Neil Sammells
โ Scribed by Review by: Valerie A. Murrenus
- Book ID
- 124216504
- Year
- 2001
- Weight
- 285 KB
- Volume
- 5
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1092-3977
- DOI
- 10.2307/20557700
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