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PENGUIN GREAT IDEAS THE DECAY OF LYING - OSCA...

'Life imitates Art far more than Art imitates Life' The two works brought together here  'The
Decay of Lying' and 'The Critic as Artist'  are Oscar Wilde's wittiest and most profound
writings on aesthetics  in which he proposes that criticism is the highest form of creation and
that lying  the telling of a beautiful untruth  is the ultimate aim of art. One of twenty new
books in the bestselling Penguin Great Ideas series. This new selection showcases a diverse
list of thinkers who have helped shape our world today  from anarchists to stoics  feminists to
prophets  satirists to Zen Buddhists.

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