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- Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics) (2003)
- The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Stories, Plays, Poems & Essays (2008)
- Oscar Wilde, Complete Collection (2014)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (2018)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (2019)
- Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (Signet Classics) (2008)
- Oscar Wilde’s Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions) (1998)
- The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde (2018)
- Oscar Wilde (1988)
- Oscar Wilde – The Major Works (Oxford World’s Classics) (2008)
- The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose (Penguin Classics) (2001)
- The Complete Short Stories (Oxford World’s Classics) (2010)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (2015)
- De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings (1999)
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics) (2003)
The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde’s works, and is available in both hardback and this paperback edition.
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Stories, Plays, Poems & Essays (2008)
A unique one-volume anthology which includes all of Wilde’s stories, plays, and poems. It also features a large portion of his essays and letters and an introduction by Wilde’s son, Vyvyan Holland. #160,251 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #3050 in Short Stories (Books) #1920 in Literature #1199 in Reference (Books) Would you like to ?If you are a seller for this product, would you like to ?
Oscar Wilde, Complete Collection (2014)
Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (2018)
The Picture of Dorian Gray is an 1891 philosophical novel by Irish writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. First published as a serial story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, the editors feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde’s knowledge, deleted five hundred words before publication.
The Importance of Being Earnest (2019)
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on 14 February 1895 at the St James’s Theatre in London, it is a farcical comedy in which the protagonists maintain fictitious personæ to escape burdensome social obligations.
Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (Signet Classics) (2008)
Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales, as Oscar Wilde himself explained, were written “partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.” #502,819 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #1372 in Fantasy Anthologies #2591 in Classic American Literature #648 in Victorian Literary Criticism (Books) Woul…
Oscar Wilde’s Wit and Wisdom: A Book of Quotations (Dover Thrift Editions) (1998)
“I have the simplest tastes,” remarked Oscar Wilde. “I am always satisfied with the best.” In this superlative collection of quotations by the great Irish playwright and wit, readers will find the very best of Wilde’s scintillating comments on art, human nature, morals, society, politics, history, and numerous other subjects.
The Annotated Prison Writings of Oscar Wilde (2018)
“And I? May I say nothing, my lord?” With these words, Oscar Wilde’s courtroom trials came to a close. The lord in question, High Court justice Sir Alfred Wills, sent Wilde to the cells, sentenced to two years in prison with hard labor for the crime of “gross indecency” with other men.
Oscar Wilde (1988)
Winner of both the National Book Critics Circle Award and the Pulitzer Prize, Oscar Wilde is the definitive biography of the tortured poet and playwright and the last book by renowned biographer and literary critic Richard Ellmann. Ellmann dedicated two decades to the research and writing of this biography, resulting in a complex and richly detailed portrait of Oscar Wilde.
Oscar Wilde – The Major Works (Oxford World’s Classics) (2008)
Oscar Wilde’s dramatic private life has sometimes threatened to overshadow his great literary achievements. His talent was prodigious: the author of brilliant social comedies, fairy stories, critical dialogues, poems, and a novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray.
The Soul of Man Under Socialism and Selected Critical Prose (Penguin Classics) (2001)
Oscar Wilde—witty raconteur, flamboyant hedonist, and self-destructive lover—is most familiar as the author of brilliant comedies, including The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, and the decadent novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. This selection of critical writings reveals a different side of the great writer—the deep and serious reader of literature and philosophy, and the eloquent and original thinker about society and art.
The Complete Short Stories (Oxford World’s Classics) (2010)
Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. Admired by George Orwell and W. B. Yeats, the stories include poignant fairy-tales such as “The Happy Prince” and “The Selfish Giant,” the extravagant comedy of “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” and “The Canterville Ghost,” and the daring narrative experiments of “The Portrait of Mr. W.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (2015)
The Picture of Dorian Gray is an 1891 philosophical novel by writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. First published as a complete story in the July 1890 issue of Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, the editors feared the story was indecent, and without Wilde’s knowledge, deleted five hundred words before publication.
De Profundis: The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Writings (1999)
De Profundis is Wilde’s eloquent and bitter reproach from prison to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. He contrasts his behaviour with that of his close friend Robert Ross who became Wilde’s literary executor. The Ballad of Reading Gaol is a deeply moving and characteristically generous poem on the horrors of prison life, which was published anonymously in 1898.
Best Oscar Wilde Books That Will Hook You
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WILDE NOW: Performance, Celebrity and Intermediality in Oscar Wilde
Author(s): Pierpaolo Martino
ID: 3722243, Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, Year: 2023, Size: 4 Mb, Format: pdf
The Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection
Author(s): Oscar Wilde, Nicholas Frankel (editor)
ID: 3582922, Publisher: Harvard University Press, Year: 2022, Size: 43 Mb, Format: epub
Freak to Chic: “Gay” Men in and out of Fashion after Oscar Wilde
Author(s): Dominic Janes
ID: 3000011, Publisher: Bloomsbury Visual Arts, Year: 2021, Size: 9 Mb, Format: pdf
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