90 classic titles celebrating 90 years of Penguin Books.

‘All art,’ Oscar Wilde once announced, ‘is quite useless.’ Selected here are some of his finest prose works on the subject of art useless, illuminating, artificial, uplifting, radical, gorgeous, boring, sublime and his most brilliant aphorisms on the creative life. Whether lamenting the crass urge to hold art to realist or natural standards or arguing against morality as a guiding principle, Wilde defends the artist while delighting the audience.

Format: Paperback
Published: 2025
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
Pages: 160
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0241746736
ISBN 13: 9780241746738