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  • 09-11-2007 3:58pm
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    rasoul
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    hi, i am gonna go to the library tomorrow, looking to get an Oscar Wilde book or two, can anyone recommend a good Wilde book to start with please ? thanks rasoul


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    biko
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    The Canterville Ghost


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    rasoul
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    thanks for that, any more you would recommend in case they havent got that ?


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    John
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    The Picture of Dorian Grey


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    ZorbaTehZ
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    Novels? Plays? Defintely have a look at Dorian Gray though, a really amazing read.


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    rasoul
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    ZorbaTehZ wrote: »
    Novels? Plays? Defintely have a look at Dorian Gray though, a really amazing read.


    Yea novels, I will grab those two mentioned if they have them, is there much humour in dorian gray i wonder ?


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    ZorbaTehZ
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    rasoul wrote: »
    Yea novels, I will grab those two mentioned if they have them, is there much humour in dorian gray i wonder ?

    Brilliantly witty imo - though the kind of humour he uses doesn't fit with everyone.


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    rasoul
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    ZorbaTehZ wrote: »
    Brilliantly witty imo - though the kind of humour he uses doesn't fit with everyone.



    from what i have read about Wilde, I reckon it will suit me :) , I will report back to you, cheers !


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    DublinWriter
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    The Happy Prince is a good tear-jerking children's book.

    Also check out The Ballad of Reading Gaol.


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    pwd
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    I agree with the Picture of Dorian Grey.
    I really didn't like The Importance of Being Earnest.


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    The_Minister
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    John wrote: »
    The Picture of Dorian Grey
    Support +11


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    buck65
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    Dorian Gray , fantastic book.


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    csk
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    The Importance of Being Earnest and you really can't beat the Ballad of Reading Gaol.


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    tHE vAGGABOND
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    You should be able to get a book which has all/most of his stuff in one edition.

    I actually have two different 'collected works..' at home. [1 gift, and one purchsed by me].


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    Valmont
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    Of the plays I'd recommend 'the importance of being earnest'. I was reading it on the dart and I started laughing and made a twat out of myself, it was horrible (in a funny way:D)


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    gillyfromlyre
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    John wrote: »
    The Picture of Dorian Grey

    Me too,advise that one, first one i read of his, could have been written yesterday, if you ignore the horse drawn cabs etc


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    Karlusss
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    Dorian Gray is the best. A lot of his plays are full of that really fluffy paradox crap that gets quoted everywhere (which is why a whole lot of people like him in the first place), but The Picture of Dorian Gray (while it has that too), is a great novel. In the broad sense. One of the best around.

    And, if I'm not very much mistaken, his only novel.


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