Oscar Wilde's Guide to Modern Living

by John Calvin Batchelor

A collection of Wilde's witty utterances, covering a wide variety of subjects. These include "There is only one thing worse in the world than being talked about and that is not being talked about" and the "I was deeply impressed, and my walking stick showed signs of budding".

144 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 1996

Reviews

[Michaël Van Caeneghem · Rating 3 out of 5]

Soms grappig, dikwijls tenenkrullend. Oscar Wilde was niet echt vrouw-vriendelijk en weinig sociaal bewust. Gelukkig schreef hij ook een meesterwerk als The Ballad of Reading Gaol.

[mandorla]

,,The only way to atone for being occasionally a little over-dressed is by being always absolutely over-educated…

[Pedro · Rating 1 out of 5]

A classificação poderá ser injusta, mas a lição é sobretudo para mim: não voltar a requisitar um livro na biblioteca sem antes perceber exatamente do que se trata. Neste caso, não esperava um livro de citações avulsas da obra literária de Wilde.