London: Fourth Estate, 2000. — 1315 p. Here is Oscar Wilde revealed in his own words--including more than 200 previously unpublished letters--available to coincide with the one hundredth anniversary of his death Deliciously wicked, astoundingly clever, and often outright shocking, Oscar Wilde put his art into his work and his genius into his life. In this collection, replete...
In the play A Woman of No Importance, Oscar Wilde explores the double standards that existed between men and women in the Victorian Era. Men were forgiven for their indiscretions far more readily than women, and women were more condemned for moral failings. Women had few rights, as well. The plot is very simple, but it is the psychological interactions between the characters...
A dazzling blend of farce and morality, this play explores human frailty and social hypocrisy. Sir Robert Chilton's secret is discovered and exposed. He is accused of having exploited government secrets for his own gain early in his political career. With this revelation from Mrs. Cheveley comes the threat of blackmail and the ruin of Sir Robert's career. Yet in order to be a...
An Ideal Husband is an 1895 comedic stage play that revolves around blackmail and political corruption, and touches on the themes of public and private Honor. This edition of the Oscar Wilde’s classic play includes a short critical commentary on the work and it’s themes; the book also includes a short essay examining Wilde’s life and and works.
Charmides Requiescat San Miniato Rome Unvisited Humanitad Louis Napoleon Endymion Le Jardin La Mer Le Panneau Les Ballons Canzonet Le Jardin Des Tuileries Pan: Double Villanelle In The Forest Symphony In Yellow sonnets: Helas! To Milton On The Massacre Of The Christians In Bulgaria Holy Week At Genoa Urbs Sacra Aeterna E Tenebris At Verona On The Sale By Auction Of Keats' Love...
Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde, who had first set out to irritate Victorian society with his dress and talking points, then outrage it with Dorian Gray, his novel of vice hidden beneath art, finally found a way to critique society on its terms. Lady Windermere's Fan was first performed on 20 February...
1369 p. Intrduction: Merlin Holland Published: August 2003 Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume collection of Wilde’s texts available, containing his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters, all in...
Intrduction: Merlin Holland Published: August 2003 Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume collection of Wilde’s texts available, containing his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters, all in their most...
Delphi Classics; 6 edition (April 25, 2011). - 2808 p. Features * annotated with introductions to the plays, novel and other texts. * features many images relating to Wilde, his life and works. * illustrated with images of how the books first appeared, giving your kindle a taste of the Victorian texts. * ALL of the plays, with excellent formatting. * BOTH Wilde’s original...
Essays and Lectures' is a collection of essays and lectures by Oscar Wilde. 'Essays and Lectures' contains "The Rise of Historical Criticism", "The English Renaissance of Art", "House Decoration", "Art and the Handicraftsman", "Lecture to Art Students", "London Models" and "Poems in Prose".
Originally published in 1891 when Wilde was at the height of his form, these brilliant essays on art, literature, criticism, and society display the flamboyant poseur’s famous wit and wide learning. A leading spokesman for the English Aesthetic movement, Wilde promoted "art for art’s sake" against critics who argued that art must serve a moral purpose. On every page of this...
Oscar Wilde, 1893, London, 85 p. The story concerns Lady Windermere, who discovers that her husband may be having an affair with another woman. She confronts her husband but he instead invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife's birthday ball. Angered by her husband's unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere leaves her husband for another lover. After discovering what has...
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories that were written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1891. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime The Canterville Ghost The Sphinx Without a Secret The Model Millionaire The Portrait of Mr. W.H.
This collection of Wilde’s Poems contains the volume of 1881 in its entirety, ‘The Sphinx’, ‘The Ballad of Reading Gaol,’ and ‘Ravenna.’ Of the Uncollected Poems published in the Uniform Edition of 1908, a few, including the Translations from the Greek and the Polish, are omitted. Two new poems, ‘Désespoir’ and ‘Pan,’ which I have recently discovered in manuscript, are now...
Some of the reviews are curiously prophetic; some are, of course, biassed by prejudice hostile or friendly; others are conceived in the author’s wittiest and happiest vein; only a few are colourless. And if, according to Lord Beaconsfield, the verdict of a continental nation may be regarded as that of posterity, Wilde is a much greater force in our literature than even friendly...
The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Complete Version) The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Shorter Version) Ave Imperatrix To My Wife (with a copy of my poems) Magdalen Walks Theocritus — a Villanelle sonnets Greece Portia (to Ellen Terry) Fabien Dei Franchi (to Henry Irving) Phèdre (to Sarah Bernhardt) On Hearing The Dies Iræ Sung In The Sistine Chapel Ave Maria Gratia Plena Libertatis Sacra...
Preface by Robert Ross How They Struck a Contemporary The Quality of George Meredith Life in the Fallacious Model Life the Disciple Life the Plagiarist The Indispensable East The Influence of the Impressionists on Climate An Exposure to Naturalism Thomas Griffiths Wainewright Wainewright at Hobart Town Cardinal Newman and the Autobiographers Robert Browning The Two Supreme and...
Published in 1898 under the coded name C.3.3., The Ballad of Reading Gaol was an extended poem inspired by the hanging, in 1896, of a former Trooper of the Royal Horse Guards, one Charles Thomas Wooldridge, who had cut the throat of his wife. It wasn't until the seventh print run that it became known who had written the poem, though by then, even with Wilde's reputation in...
The Canterville Ghost (Illustrated by Wallace Goldsmith), 1906 An amusing chronicle of the tribulations of the Ghost of Canterville Chase when his ancestral halls became the home of the American Minister to the Court of St. James
This is how Oscar Wilde described the philosophy of `The Importance of Being Earnest`, his most sparkling, witty and light-hearted play of aristocratic manners and high society. To avoid family duties, Algernon Moncrieff, a bachelor-about-town, has invented Bunbury, a sick relative who frequently calls him away. His friend Jack Worthing has invented a wicked brother called...
The novel tells of a young man named Dorian Gray, the subject of a painting by artist Basil Hallward. Basil is impressed by Dorian's beauty and becomes infatuated with him, believing his beauty is responsible for a new mode in his art. Talking in Basil's garden, Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of Basil's, and becomes enthralled by Lord Henry's world view. Espousing a...
The Picture of Dorian Gray is the only published novel by Oscar Wilde, appearing as the lead story in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine on 20 June 1890, printed as the July 1890 issue of this magazine. Wilde later revised this edition, making several alterations, and adding new chapters; the amended version was published by Ward, Lock, and Company in April 1891. The novel tells of...
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray. This eBook was designed and published by Planet PDF. English. It’s a story as famous and as sensational as its author: a young man so enchanted with the idea of preserving his own beauty that it brings about his destruction. Denounced at its first printing as a moral abomination, Oscar Wilde’s masterpiece, The Picture of Dorian Gray,...
This is a story of moral corruption. A gothic melodrama, it is full of subtle impression and epigram. It touches on many of Wilde's recurring themes, such as the nature and spirit of art, aestheticism and the dangers inherent in it.
An enigmatic short story by Oscar Wilde, published in 1891 as part of a collection of other stories called ‘Lord Saville’s Crimes and Other Stories’. Wilde was a controversial author and playwright, best known for his novel ‘The Picture of Dorian Grey’ his fairy tales and plays. Originally published in 1887 as ‘Lady Alroy’, the title change to ‘The Sphinx without a secret’ is a...
Edited by Nicholas Frankel. — Cambridge, Massachusetts; London, England: Harvard University Press, 2012. — 272 p. ISBN: 978-0-674-06631-1 More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores all...
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