The Viking Portable Library: Oscar Wilde
Rh Value Publishing
0 pages, Hardcover
ISBN: 0517625792
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Language: English
Publish: 518857200000
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“I treated art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.” Even as he celebrated the artificial and raised frivolity to an art form, Oscar Wilde was creating a new vocabulary of artistic expression-one that was witty and elegant and genuinely subversive in its assault on moral imperatives.