The complete online text of Miscellanies by Oscar Wilde.

The British author Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was part of the "art for art's sake" movement in English literature at the end of the 19th century. He is best known for his brilliant, witty comedies. Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, I...

Oscar Wilde as man and artist is a study of extremes and contradictions. He approached life empirically, as Walter Pater had taught him at Oxford, but the pupil determined to pursue sensation beyond art into life. Wilde insisted that the two greatest art...

] Together with George Bernard Shaw, Oscar Wilde transformed British drama in the late nineteenth century by expressing a new, "modern" sensibility. By the mid nineteenth century, the British theater, though rich in various theatrical forms, such as vers...

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A Military Miscellany. By Thomas Ayres. New York: Bantam Dell Publishing Group, 184 pages, $15, 2006. Reviewed by Tracy Raines, Infantry Magazine editorial intern. Thomas Ayres, who passed away in March 2006, wrote for the Dallas Times Herald, Civil War Times and Columbiad,...

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