Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde

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. Book