Oscar Wilde & August Nemo 
Essays 

Welcome to the Essays collection. A special selection of the nonfiction prose from influential and noteworthy authors. This book brings some of best essays of Oscar Wilde, across a wide range of subjects, including art, literature, politics and many more topics. Known for his biting wit, extravagant dandy attire, conversational skills, and witty sayings rich in sarcasm, irony, and cynicism, Wilde became one of the most famous personalities of his time. Many of his most relevant works were published by Tacet Books. The book contains the following texts: – Introduction by Edmund Gosse- The Soul of Man Under Socialism- A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated- The Rise Of Historical Criticism- The English Renaissance Of Art- House Decoration- Art And The Handicraftsman- Lecture To Art Students- London Models

Circa l’autore

Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in ‘one of the first celebrity trials’, imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46.