by Oscar Wilde · tapa blanda · ISBN 9781784876074
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«Lies» is an anthology of Oscar Wilde's texts on lying and truth, published by Penguin Random House in paperback (160 pages, in English).
Anthology of Oscar Wilde's texts on lying and its relationship with truth and creation. With his usual irony, the author brings together everyday deceits, false names, imaginary friends and fictitious engagements, and argues that lying can be an art, in a reflection that connects literature, aesthetics and morality.
Part of Vintage Minis, a series of short books by great authors. The texts come from The Importance of Being Earnest, The Decay of Lying and The Picture of Dorian Gray.
For anyone wanting a brief first approach to Oscar Wilde's irony and aesthetic thought.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
