{"product_id":"9780996136525","title":"Virtue of Disobedience","description":"\u003cp\u003eMost of these columns appeared in the weekly Sparks Tribune and the Reno News \u0026amp; Review. Thanks to both papers for courageously publishing columns and articles that no other newspaper or magazine would have printed.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOscar Wilde, one of my all-time favorite people in history. Brilliant, witty, wise. Epigramist. Versatile: playwright, short-story writer, novelist, poet, social critic, essayist and book reviewer. Marvelous conversationalist. Classicist. Scholar. Dandy. Esthete. Humanist.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOscar Wilde, one of the greatest multi-faced geniuses ever to grace the Earth.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOn entering America in 1882 for a tour he purportedly told a custom official: “I have nothing to declare except my genius.” Whether fact or fiction, it is so typical of what Wilde might have quipped.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe was right about Shakespeare, “the most purely human of all the great artists.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe wrote truly: “Out of the carpenter’s shop at Nazareth had come a personality infinitely greater than any made of myth or legend. ‘He that is without sin among you let him first cast a stone at her,’ Jesus said. It is worthwhile living to have said only that.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHe relates prison sorrow in his “The Ballad of Reading Gaol”: “And alien tears will fill for him \/ Pity’s long broken urn. \/ For his mourners will be outcast men.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Kitson Creative","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50091051712752,"sku":"9780996136525","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780996136525","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}