Reviews for Oscar Wilde

The average rating for Oscar Wilde based on 2 reviews is 4 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2008-04-13 00:00:00 Ryan Costion I am going to be devastated on the day that I see Ursula K. Le Guin's obituary in the papers, and this book is one of many reasons why. This is some of the best prose that I've read recently. She writes like Batman fights: no jazzy wire-fu whirl and leap, no showy moulinette pirouette lunar gravity twirl--just the right phrase in the right place at exactly the right time.

Review # 2 was written on 2013-04-22 00:00:00 Joseph Gibbons Ursula has mastered me again. This collection, set mostly in the troubled, fictional Eastern-European country of Orsinia during the early-mid 1900s, is rife with the political philosophy that make Le Guin's work so thematically poignant; yet it's told with such attention to characters, depicted with such a sparse brush, that the reading experience is something like wandering through an art gallery. Almost entirely absent are elements of science fiction or fantasy, making this the perfect collection to introduce someone otherwise wary of those genres to Le Guin's writing. Meanwhile, the rest of us may simply find it a refreshing return to earth.