Beautiful and Impossible Things: Selected Essays of Oscar Wilde

“First, it is an elegant linen-bound production that gives it a handsome feel in the hand, but then fits neatly into a pocket like something one should never travel without on the train. Moreover, it is purple—one of Wilde’s statement colors—which as a cover for Wilde’s sparkling prose renders it heliotrope with diamonds…it is a book that should always be with us when there are no flowers to look at and we want something to stir the intelligence.” —John Cooper, Oscar Wilde in America (blog)

“The release of this lovely volume from Notting Hill Editions is a timely reminder that Oscar Wilde was more than just a wit, spouting aphorisms and ending up the subject of scandal and imprisonment.” —Shiny New Books