(H/B) COLLECTED WORKS OF OSCAR WILDE

Παρουσίαση

The artist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim.
The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only beauty.
There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
The nineteenth-century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth-century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.
The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium.
No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.
No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.
Thought and language are to the artist instruments of an art.
Vice and virtue are to the artist materials for an art. From the point of view of form, the type of all the arts is the art of the musician. From the point of view of feeling, the actor's craft is the type.
All art is at once surface and symbol.
Those who go beneath the surface do so at their peril.
Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. It is the spectator, and not life, that art really mirrors.
Diversity of opinion about a work of art shows that the work is new, complex, and vital.
When critics disagree the artist is in accord with himself.
We can forgive a man for making a useful thing as long as he does not admire it. The only excuse for making a useless thing is that one admires it intensely.
All art is quite useless. OSCAR WILDE (From the publisher)

Περιεχόμενα

The Picture of Dorian Gray
LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME AND OTHER STORIES
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
The Sphinx without a Secret
The Canterville Ghost
The Model Millionaire
The Portrait of Mr W. H.
A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES
This volume dedicated to Constance Mary Wilde
The Young King
The Birthday of the Infanta
The Fisherman and his Soul
The Star-Child
THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES
This volume dedicated to Carlos Blacker
The Happy Prince
The Nightingale and the Rose
The Selfish Giant
The Devoted Friend
The Remarkable Rocket
THE PLAYS
Vera
The Duchess of Padua
Lady Windermere's Fan
A Woman of No Importance
An Ideal Husband
The Importance of Being Earnest
Salome
La Sainte Courtisane
A Florentine Tragedy
THE POETICAL WORKS
Poems
The Sphinx
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Ravenna
INTENTIONS
The Decay of Lying
Pen, Pencil and Poison
The Critic as Artist
The Truth of Masks
The Soul of Man under Socialism
De Profundis