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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
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Hardcover. Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 in Dublin. His fairytale collections "The Happy Prince and Other Tales" (1888) and "A House of Pomegranates" (1892) belong to the genre of 'literary fairy tales', which, as the creation of a particular writer, represent a separate literary genre with a long tradition that goes back to antiquity. Num Pages: 87 pages, 93 colour illus. BIC Classification: YFA; YFJ. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 297 x 251 x 15. Weight in Grams: 824.
Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 in Dublin, the son of a physician and writer; his mother wrote poems and was an authority on Celtic folklore. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and later at Magdalen College, Oxford. As a student, already an enthusiastic follower of Walter Pater, he began to lead a life completely shaped by aesthetic premises. Typical of this attitude is Pater's statement: 'To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.' In 1884, after a lecture tour in Canada and the United States, where he caused a sensation ... Read more
Oscar Wilde was born in 1854 in Dublin, the son of a physician and writer; his mother wrote poems and was an authority on Celtic folklore. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, and later at Magdalen College, Oxford. As a student, already an enthusiastic follower of Walter Pater, he began to lead a life completely shaped by aesthetic premises. Typical of this attitude is Pater's statement: 'To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life.' In 1884, after a lecture tour in Canada and the United States, where he caused a sensation ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Publisher
Edition Axel Menges Germany
Number of pages
87
Condition
New
Number of Pages
96
Place of Publication
Fellbach, Germany
ISBN
9783936681130
SKU
V9783936681130
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99-15
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