Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde : Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde

This selection of Oscar Wilde’s writings provides a fresh perspective on his character and thinking. Compiled from his lecture tours, newspaper articles, essays and epigrams, these pieces show that beneath the trademark wit, Wilde was a deeply humane and visionary writer, as challenging today as he was in the late 1800s. This edition includes essays on interior design, prison reform, Shakespeare, the dramatic dialogue Decay of Lying and the seminal Soul of Man . These essays reveal different and lesser known aspects to Oscar Wilde Wilde has always had the power to capture the public imagination like no other author