  Edited by John Calvin Batchelor & Craig McNeer
The plays, novels, essays, letters, and bons mots of Oscar Wilde form one of the extraordinary bodies of work in the English language- brilliant, witty full of wicked insight and dazzling turns of phrase. Oscar Wildes guide to Modern Living gathers hundreds of the writers pithiest utterances and epigrams in a collection of late nineteenth century wisdom that has an uncanny relevance to the late twentieth. Whether holding forth on morality ("Simply the attitude we adopt persons we dislike"), education ("Nothing worth knowing can be taught"), criticism ("The highest form of autobiography"), or the Pope ("I was deeply impressed, and my walking stick showed signs of budding"), Wilde's voice rings with the unique imagination and keen intelligence that continued to his deathbed ("It's the wallpaper of me. One of us has to go") and sounds amazingly fresh and current today. Pungent, provocative and fiendishly funny, Oscar Wilde's Guide to Modern Living is an essential resource for anyone navigating the dangerous waters of modern life.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. For fifteen years he enjoyed he enjoyed public acclaim as an author, conversationalist, and notable. His showmanship moved him to make a celebrated tour of America. In 1895 he was convicted for indecent behaviour and jailed for two years. He died in 1900.
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