The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde Author:Oscar Wilde Edited by Alvin Redman. In the 60 years since Oscar Wilde's death, his writings and conversations have refused to go the way of so many things Victorian. Instead, each new generation has found in his barbed humor a fresh pungency and aptness. Even though we feel we ought to be outraged by Wilde's views of the world, his brilliant statements h... more »ave us laughing and nodding in agreement. This collection reveals him at his finest, in over 1000 epigrams which expose the hypocrisies and weaknesses of "civilized" society and over-civilized man. It includes excerpts from his trial testimony, where the tragedy implicit in Wilde's humor is nowhere more vivid. As one of the great conversationalists of all time fences with the greatest cross-examiner of the day, we witness a remarkable, and tragic, tour de force. ...these epigrams are divided into 49 categories. They offer a cynic's eye-view of sin, society, genius, wealth, men, women, religion, America, education, smoking, and dozens of other aspects and components of our lives. ...« less