Oscar Wilde (Classic Reprint)

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Excerpt from Oscar Wilde He belongs to a class, evades the label, and fits into no pigeon-hole. That is possibly the reason why his works have been raised to a pinnacle of golden adoration, higher, perhaps, than Rudyard Kipling or any other author reached in his lifetime. I am inclined to think that it was not Wilde's witty paradox or wonderful imagery which won for him a worldwide attention. I am more inclined to think that an explanation of the "Wilde craze" is to be found in the strange glamour which enveloped the author from the moment he wrote Dorian Gray to his last moments in Paris. There was always something weird about Wilde which compelled attention He acknowledged once that all his genius was to be found in his life, and only his talent in the books he had written. Wilde's Sense of Humour. Wilde had a keen sense of humour. I have heard it remarked that humour is a life-preserver that saves you from drowning when you jump off into a sea of sermons, and that a man who cannot laugh is apt to run amuck. However, the sense of humour did not save Wilde from disaster and death. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.