Written by Oscar Wilde
Impressions of America
by Oscar WildeOscar Wilde visited America in the year 1882. Interest in the aethetic School, of which he was already the acknowledged master, had sometime previously spread to the United States, and it is said that the production of the Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Patience, in which he and his disciples were held up to ridicule, determined him to pay a visit to ..
The Soul of Man
by Oscar WildeMiscellaneous aphorisms, followed by The Soul of Man.The mystery of love is greater than the mystery of death.Women are made to be loved, not to be understood.It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read andwhat one shouldn't. Moren than half of modern culture depends on whatone shouldn't read.Women, as someone says, love wi..
Shorter Prose Pieces
by Oscar WildePure Greek it is, with the grave low forehead, the exquisitely arched brow; the noble chiselling of the mouth, shaped as if it were the mouthpiece of an instrument of music; the supreme and splendid curve of the cheek; the augustly pillared throat which bears it all: it is Greek, because the lines which compose it are so definite and so strong, and..
Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life
by Oscar WildeThe circumstance which called forth this letter is a woeful one for Christian England. Martin, the Reading warder, is found guilty of feeding the hungry, nursing the sick, of being kindly and humane. These are his offences in plain unofficial language. This pamphlet is tendered to earnest persons as evidence that the prison system is opposed to all..