The funny is considerable, the sadness and softer emotions are amply represented, and the brilliance is ubiquitous throughout. Seriously.how does one not love on Oscar Wilde when he's throwing down the snarky.in this case, and in proper British fashion, against cocky, adolescent-cultured Americans and their starched-lip, tradition-trapped English cousins?Ī bounty of clever from start to finish, Wilde's tale is charming, engaging and pitch-perfect.įor a story less than 30 pages long, Wilde accomplishes so much, using scalpel-like precision in both his language and his plotting to tell a story with a little bit of everything.
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