The Wit of Oscar Wilde

The Wit of Oscar Wilde
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Publisher : Barnes & Noble Publishing
Total Pages : 136
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ISBN-10 : 0880299452
ISBN-13 : 9780880299459
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Book Synopsis The Wit of Oscar Wilde by : Oscar Wilde

Download or read book The Wit of Oscar Wilde written by Oscar Wilde and published by Barnes & Noble Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oscar Wilde is one of the most quoted and quotable men in history. He once boasted that he could talk spontaneously on any subject, a claim effortlessly borne out by the range and scope of the examples collected in this book. It is an entertaining, instructive, and revealing look at a man who is unlikely ever to be forgotten. "Oscar Wilde," wrote Richard Ellmann, "we have only to hear the great name to anticipate that what will be quoted as his will surprise and delight us. His wit is an agent of renewal, as pertinent now as a hundred years ago."


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