Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde

‘First, it is an elegant linen-bound production that gives it a handsome feel in the hand, but then fits neatly into a pocket like something one should never travel without on the train. Moreover, it is purple—one of Wilde’s statement colors—which as a cover for Wilde’s sparkling prose renders it heliotrope with diamonds...it is a book that should always be with us when there are no flowers to look at and we want something to stir the intelligence.’ Oscar Wilde in America blog Famous for his witticisms, aestheticism and flamboyant sense of dress, Oscar Wilde’s humanity and deep sense of justice have often been obscured. Compiled from lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these writings show that beneath the trademark wit and love of paradox, Wilde was an original and remarkably modern writer, as challenging and surprising today as he was in the late 1800s. With an introduction by Giles Brandreth. Hardback, clothbound with ribbon marker 228 pages