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"Charming Temperament" Author: [UK] Oscar Wilde Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
"Charming Temperament" Author: [UK] Oscar Wilde Publisher: Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House
Description
Introduction · · · · · ·
□ Oscar Wilde actually said this. Is there any writer more interesting than him?
□ Translated by the well-known translator Li Yuyao, this is a bilingual reading book in Chinese and English.
□ The cover and the entire text of the book are printed with silver technology, the book is bound with silver hot stamping and 180-degree lock thread, and the paper is carefully selected from Italy.
□ Witty and sharp - Oscar Wilde, the No. 1 representative writer of British aesthetics, is unique and speaks directly to the truth.
□ Oscar Wilde, who is loved by countless people, would definitely be the “talk show king” if he were alive today!
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Open any page and your mood may be changed. Because as long as you open it, you will laugh unconsciously. This is "Charming Temperament". This book is a book of golden sentences, which selects 180 golden sentences of Oscar Wilde and is translated by the famous translator Li Yuyao. The selected sentences are the essence of Oscar Wilde's writing, which are humorous and funny. Behind these short and exquisite maxims, Wilde has a charming temperament.
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No one is more charming than him. - Borges
I hope to have a long and heart-to-heart talk with Oscar Wilde in my next life. - Winston Churchill
He always spoke in perfect sentences, and I have never heard anyone else speak like this. It was as if he had written it overnight with great effort, and yet it was completely spontaneous. - Yeats
Oscar Wilde is different from other men. He has a pure, honest and radical heart. - Jeanette Winterson
About the Author
Oscar Wilde was born in Dublin, Ireland on October 16, 1854. He was a representative writer of British aestheticism, a fairy tale writer and a playwright. He wrote the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, the fairy tale The Happy Prince, the letter De Profundis, and the plays Salome and Lady Windermere's Fan. On November 30, 1900, Wilde died of meningitis in a hotel in Paris at the age of 46.
Li Yuyao is a translator and editor, currently working at Shanghai Translation Publishing House. She has translated more than 20 works, including Heirlooms, A Dance of Happy Shadows, The Island Bookshop, Room, Margaret Town, Dances with Wolves, and Passion. Among them, Heirlooms won the 2018 Book Industry Annual Selection Annual Translation Award.