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𝙇𝙞𝙚𝙨: 𝙑𝙞𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙜𝙚 𝙈𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨 by Oscar Wilde
精選節錄王爾德的經典劇本《不可兒戲》、論文《謊言的衰朽》、小說《格雷的畫像》。
VINTAGE MINIS 系列
自經典名作中汲取精華短讀，用文學思考生活的百百面向，加深加廣閱讀視界
‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.’
Is lying simply an uncomfortable truth about life or something to be celebrated? In these dazzlingly witty pages we find deceptions of all kinds. From false names to imaginary friends to fictitious engagements, Wilde proves himself to be a connoisseur of creativity and argues that lying may be an art form in itself.
Selected from 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘐𝘮𝘱𝘰𝘳𝘵𝘢𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘌𝘢𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘵, 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘋𝘦𝘤𝘢𝘺 𝘰𝘧 𝘓𝘺𝘪𝘯𝘨 and 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘗𝘪𝘤𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘰𝘧 𝘋𝘰𝘳𝘪𝘢𝘯 𝘎𝘳𝘢𝘺.
𝚅𝙸𝙽𝚃𝙰𝙶𝙴 𝙼𝙸𝙽𝙸𝚂: 𝙶𝚁𝙴𝙰𝚃 𝙼𝙸𝙽𝙳𝚂. 𝙱𝙸𝙶 𝙸𝙳𝙴𝙰𝚂. 𝙻𝙸𝚃𝚃𝙻𝙴 𝙱𝙾𝙾𝙺𝚂.
Also in the Vintage Minis series:
𝘿𝙚𝙨𝙞𝙧𝙚 by Haruki Murakami
𝙀𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 by Nigella Lawson
𝙃𝙤𝙢𝙚 by Salman Rushdie
𝘽𝙖𝙗𝙞𝙚𝙨 by Anne Enright
𝙅𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙨𝙮 by Marcel Proust
Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin on 16 October 1854. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford. He later lived in London and married Constance Lloyd there in 1884. Wilde was a leader of the Aesthetic Movement. His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, was first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. He published a revised and expanded edition in 1891 in response to negative reviews which criticised the book’s immorality. Wilde became famous through of the immense success of his plays such as Lady Windemere's Fan (1892), An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).
In 1985, after a public scandal involving Wilde's relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas, he was sentenced to two years' hard labour in Reading Gaol for 'gross indecency'. His poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol was based on his experiences in prison and was published in 1898. After his release, Wilde never lived in England again and died in Paris on 30 November 1900. He is buried in Père Lachaise cemetery.
