Reviews

By Wilde, Oscar

Book Id: WPLBN0002953206
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File Size: 554.87 MB
Reproduction Date: 2007

Title:	Reviews
Author:	Wilde, Oscar
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Non-fiction, Essay/Short nonfiction
Collections:	Audio Books Collection, Reviews; by Oscar Wilde
Historic Publication Date:	1908
Publisher:	LibriVox Audio Books


Citation APA MLA Chicago Wilde, B. O., & Ross, R. (. (1908). Reviews. Retrieved from http://self.gutenberg.org/

Description
Wilde’s literary reputation has survived so much that I think it proof against any exhumation of articles which he or his admirers would have preferred to forget. As a matter of fact, I believe this volume will prove of unusual interest; some of the reviews are curiously prophetic; some are, of course, biassed by prejudice hostile or friendly; others are conceived in the author’s wittiest and happiest vein; only a few are colourless. And if, according to Lord Beaconsfield, the verdict of a continental nation may be regarded as that of posterity, Wilde is a much greater force in our literature than even friendly contemporaries ever supposed he would become. It should be remembered, however, that at the time when most of these reviews were written Wilde had published scarcely any of the works by which his name has become famous in Europe, though the protagonist of the æsthetic movement was a well-known figure in Paris and London. (Summary from Introduction by Robert Ross)

Summary
Electronic recorded live performance of a reading

Excerpt
Essay/Short nonfiction