Best of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde is one of the most quotable of authors, as this collection of extracts from his prose clearly demonstrates. It also illustrates the breadth of interest, from the delightfully comic to the profoundly serious, of this supremely talented but ultimately tragic figure.

Robert Pearce is a professor of History at the University College of St Martin, Lancaster, and a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. The author of a dozen history books, he has also edited and introduced six volumes in the Duckworth ‘Sayings’ series.