By Oscar Wilde

That includes the whole lot of Oscar Wilde’s dramatic works, this assortment demonstrates the author’s wide selection, unerring wit, and distinctive point of view. Bringing jointly Wilde’s most famed performs, together with The significance of Being Earnest, An perfect Husband, and Lady Windermere’s Fan, besides infrequent and incomplete dramas like Salome and Vera, this compendium is a vital source for any fan or pupil of Wilde’s dramatic works.

Often thought of prior to his time, the performs of Oscar Wilde proceed to resonate with glossy audiences and plenty of were tailored for movie and tv, together with the 2002 movie The significance of Being Earnest, starring Judi Dench and Colin Firth.

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I have tried out my pendulum in humbler boxes with elementary faces, but never in a clock with two hands, let alone a masterpiece like the Zacharius Machine. I could have got it working, after a fashion, but a masterpiece is a masterpiece, and it sets its own standard of perfection. I might have gone to Geneva in search of a skilled clockmaker, but how could I dare, given my appearance? Even before Calvin came, Master Zacharius was remembered by many as a sorcerer, and those who hold such opinions are always among the first converts to any new fad - including Calvin's philosophy.

The dwarf took him to a room more brightly lit than the rest, which also looked out over the garden. It had a fire burning in the grate, but the chimney let out into the same covert, so its smoke would not have been easily visible as Jehan Thun had approached on the previous evening. There was a cookpot simmering beside the fire, and various items of game hung from a rack on the chimney-breast. The furniture was sparse but there was a sturdy table and two good chairs. Jehan sat down gladly, and ate a good meal.

The truth seemed to have taken firm hold of Jehan Thun's tongue; he could not seem to twist it. "I'm not a watchmaker," he confessed. "I'm a printer - or was. The mob was as anxious to smash up my press as to break my neighbours' heads. I can cast and trim type, and work in wood, and I have some skill as an engraver, but I haven't curled a spring or wrought a fusee since I helped my father in his shop as a boy. Times have changed, and it's the printing press that has changed them. " The dwarf looked at him long and hard then, as if he were following some train of thought to an unexpected terminus.

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