Nothing...Except My Genius

Jul 21, 2025 4:59 PM

Author:Oscar Wilde

'I have nothing to declare', Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius'. A socialite, a wit, a man who flaunted convention and was unafraid to shock, Oscar Wilde was a great writer and a great man. This new collection of wit and wisdom demonstrates the brilliance of his vision, the audacity of his style. Such is the scope of the material, it brings to life the Wilde of great feeling as well as the Wilde of great art.

Reviews

A masterpiece

—— Sunday Telegraph

As rich and exciting as Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose, but deeper and more disturbing... It begins as a murder mystery but ends in a revelation of deeper mysteries of death and rebirth

—— New York Times

Highly imaginative

—— Guardian

A short, charged and imaginative fable-cum-murder-mystery which uses [Fuller's] gift for narrative and for elaborate metaphor to great effect

—— Sunday Times

'Absolutely outrageous - a dazzling writer'

—— Jilly Cooper , The Sunday Times

'This is a dirty book'

—— The Times Literary Supplement

'Fine comic scenes...readers will have trouble putting Sap Rising down, even if their gorge rises'

—— Daily Express

'Imagine Barbara Pym writing for Penthouse'

—— Literary Review

'He writes so brilliantly'

—— Daniel Farson , Evening Standard

'Extremely funny'

—— Time Out

'Do not buy this book'

—— Guardian

'Frightful pile of garbage'

—— New Statesman

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