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A Poet Can Survive Everything but a Misprint

A Poet Can Survive Everything but a Misprint - Penguin Archive

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Publisher's Synopsis

"All art," Oscar Wilde once announced, "is quite useless." Selected here are some of his finest prose works on the subject of art - useless, illuminating, artificial, uplifting, radical, gorgeous, boring, sublime - and his most brilliant aphorisms on the creative life. Whether lamenting the crass urge to hold art to realist or natural standards or arguing against morality as a guiding principle, Wilde defends the artist while delighting the audience.

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Penguin Classics

In January 1946, the Penguin Classics list was launched with E. V. Rieu's translation of The Odyssey. The series now consists of over 800 titles including the best in English, American, European, classical and non-western literature and an extensive range of philosophy, religion, art, history and politics titles.

Book information

ISBN: 9780241746738
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Imprint: Penguin Classics
Pub date:
DEWEY: 828.809
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 128
Weight: 150g
Height: 181mm
Width: 111mm
Spine width: 15mm