Mines would have to be [other than ''Picture of Dorian Gray''] would be either ''The Ballad of Reading Gaol'' or ''The Importance of being Earnest'' [play].The ending for ..Gray was horrible but fascinating and it was drilled in my mind for days.The ballad of readin gaol made me feel pitiful for the author and had a sense of hopless tragedy,but very poetical,and i love he compares things![ex:''..poison weeds bloom well in prison air, it is only what is good in man, that wastes and withers there.''].The Importance of being Earnest was really witty and had Wilde's famous blunt sarcasm.Loved it,very amusing.
2007-02-15 17:07:47 · 8 answers · asked by ♠ Oscillate Wildly ♠ 5 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
"Faithfulness is to the emotional life what consistency is to the life of the intellect - simply a confession of failures."
-- “The Picture of Dorian Gray”
2007-02-15 17:11:33 · update #1
I love The Picture of Dorian Gray the best. I cried for an hour when he killed Basil, I loved him! I know what you mean about the ending, I think I re-read it three times before I finally put down the book and thought about it. I loved the Preface too. I actually have that framed. "All Art is quite useless." That's just beautiful. I love everything by Oscar Wilde though. His plays are fabulous! I want to see a production of one of them, any of them, badly. But c'est la vie...
2007-02-15 17:22:55 · answer #1 · answered by Jess 4 · 2⤊ 0⤋
My favorite Oscar Wilde poem is The Ballad of Reading Gaol. It is so beautiful yet tragic.
2007-02-15 20:32:15 · answer #2 · answered by Amber C 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I loved The Importance of Being Earnest
2007-02-15 20:13:56 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Read De Profundis. While my favorites have all been listed, De Profundis is truly amazing. It's a letter he wrote to his lover while he was in Reading Gaol. He goes from one extreme to the other in his feelings for him. It's actually a wonderful insight into the mind of someone torn to pieces by love.
2007-02-16 14:46:27 · answer #4 · answered by kittydoormat 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I love Oscar Wilde - I love everything he's ever written. He was absolutely brilliant. My favorite is a story that my mother read to me as a child; I made her read it over and over and over. I asked her to teach me to read so that I could read it by myself. The story is
"The Happy Prince".
http://fiction.eserver.org/short/happy_prince.html.
I love his poetry, especially "The Ballad of Reading Gaol". "Requiescat", too is one of my favorites:
REQUIESCAT
by: Oscar Wilde
TREAD lightly, she is near
Under the snow,
Speak gently, she can hear
The daisies grow.
All her bright golden hair
Tarnished with rust,
She that was young and fair
Fallen to dust.
Lily-like, white as snow,
She hardly knew
She was a woman, so
Sweetly she grew.
Coffin-board, heavy stone,
Lie on her breast,
I vex my heart alone,
She is at rest.
Peace, peace, she cannot hear
Lyre or sonnet,
All my life's buried here,
Heap earth upon it.
2007-02-15 23:17:13 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite O.Wilde novel is "The Picture of Dorian Gray".
2007-02-15 23:08:21 · answer #6 · answered by Mirela 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Lady Windermere's Fan
2007-02-16 17:54:50 · answer #7 · answered by puglover 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"Salome." Totally bizarre and perverted, though I think Salome was quite an amazing girl.
2007-02-15 17:28:01 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋