Loading images...
Beautiful And Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde
€6.00

Quay Books
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.
Published by Notting Hill Editions, a UK publisher devoted to the best in essay writing.
"First, it is an elegant linen-bound production that gives it a handsome feel in the hand, but then fits neatly into a pocket like something one should never travel without on the train. Moreover, it is purple—one of Wilde’s statement colors—which as a cover for Wilde’s sparkling prose renders it heliotrope with diamonds...it is a book that should always be with us when there are no flowers to look at and we want something to stir the intelligence."
— John Cooper, Oscar Wilde in America (blog)
More from Quay Books Browse Quay Books All
Burmese Days, by George Orwell
€4.00
€11.00
63% off
And Yet I Like America: another instalment (the 6th) of J L Hodson's War Diary, by J.L. Hodson
€10.00
The King's Shopping, by June Crebbin
€3.00
€6.00
50% off
Paris: The Monocle Travel Guide, by Tyler Brûlé and Andrew Tuck
€5.00
€9.00
44% off
Sophie's World: A Novel About the History of Philosophy, by Jostein Gaarder.
€5.00
€12.00
58% off
Threatened Paradise: Borneo and Its People, by Cyril Alliston
€5.00
After Julius by Elizabeth Jane Howard
€7.00
Family-Friendly Knits: Seasonal Knitted Garments and Accessories for Children and Adults, by Courtney Spainhower
€7.00
€20.00
65% off