Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (665 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 000472383X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 1280 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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Merlin Holland is Oscar Wilde’s only grandson. He is a journalist and the author of ‘The Wilde Album’ and ‘Irish Peacock and Scarlet’ both also published by Fourth Estate.
(See also son Vyvyan Holland's autobiography, above.) Copyright 1999 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Library Journal Collins is perhaps the single best edition of Wilde's complete works. This Centenary Edition was edited by his grandson Merlin, who made revisions to the text. Along with the author's full canon of plays, poems, essays, and novels, this also contains numerous appendixes of biographical information and chronologies of Wilde's work as well as examples of his famous one-liners divided into categories.
A new centennial edition of the bestselling Complete Worlks of Oscar Wilde: now published in a special papreback centennial edition to commemorate the 100th anniversary of his death, with a revision of The Ballad of Reading Gaol by Merlin Holland, Oscar's grandson.. The centennial edition of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works
"Surprisingly good on all counts." according to M K Temple. The categories above don't really apply to a massive anthology of plays, essays, poetry, and fiction. I was skeptical of this edition at first: those cheap/free loving-amateur compilations of public domain works after often riddled with typos, but I was pleasantly surprised; I've seen worse inaccuracies in books from major publishers. (The only problem was in that apparently the technology used by at least one transcriber did not support the Greek-language font, and the words Wilde left in the Greek alphabet were omitted; I wish the transcriber had at least tried to transliterate.) Wilde's major work (like the mo. Oscar Wilde. I wanted to have this works in hand to read whenever I had time. I have read some of his work and greatly enjoyed.. Amazon Customer said Good book. Now I know why Oscar Wilde is famous after reading this.