Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
By: Oscar Wilde
'Flamboyant fin-de-siecle literary figure Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage.Here in one volume are...
Published: Dec 1982
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 384
Lady Windermere's Fan
By: Oscar Wilde
This Victorian comedy of manners sparkles with Wilde's trademark repartee, epigrams, and witty dialogue. Arch-moralist Lady Windermere, shattered by the suspicion of her husband's infidelity, contemplates running off with a roue until her rival...
Published: Apr 1998
Genre: Fiction - Humorous
Pages: 52
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Short Stories
By: Oscar Wilde
Oh! In what a wild hour of madness he had killed his friend! How ghastly the mere memory of the scene! He saw it all again. Each hideous detail came back to him with added horror. Out of the black cave of time, terrible and swathed in scarlet, rose...
Published: Jun 1995
Genre: Fiction - Classics
An Ideal Husband
By: Oscar Wilde
A dazzling blend of farce and morality, An Ideal Husband 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...
Published: Jul 1999
Genre: Fiction - Media Tie-in
Pages: 127
Complete Shorter Fiction (Oxford World's Classics)
By: Oscar Wilde
For the first time in one volume, this complete collection of all the short fiction Oscar Wilde published contains such social and literary parodies as "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" and "The Canterville Ghost;" such well-known...
Published: Jun 1998
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 274
De Profundis
By: Oscar Wilde
The famous letter Oscar Wilde sent from Reading Gaol, describing the events that led to his arrest and imprisonment. Wilde, one of the most famous men of his day as a result of his literary and theatrical successes, had been publicly accused of...
Published: Sep 2000
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 136
The Importance of Being Earnest
By: Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest' in the revolutionary Bed Book Landscape Reading Format - a new approach to reading in bed as well as other places people enjoy reading while lying down, such as the beach, or on a grassy lawn in the...
Published: Mar 1985
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 64
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories
By: Oscar Wilde
LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME THE HAPPY PRINCE THE BIRTHDAY OF THE INFANTA In Dorian Gray, Wilde's full-length novel, a fashionable young man sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Also included in the volume are three of the...
Published: Mar 2007
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 336
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Norton Critical Edition)
By: Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde’s classic work is about a man who sells his soul for eternal youth: only his portrait ages, while he remains forever handsome and young. Wilde’s allegory, first published in 1890, provides an interesting take on the Faust myth...
Published: Aug 2006
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 517
Charmides And Other Stories
By: Oscar Wilde
Large format for easy reading. Collection of short stories from the famous dramatist, novelist and poet of the Victorian Era. A celebrity of his time and still renowned for his barbed wit.
Published: Nov 2005
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Pages: 64
Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
By: Oscar Wilde
The master of wit and irony 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...
Published: Oct 2008
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 240
Complete Short Fiction
By: Oscar Wilde
Edited with an Introduction by Ian Small.
Published: Apr 2003
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 279
de Profundis and Other Prison Writings
By: Oscar Wilde
A definitive new collection of Oscar Wilde's best prison letters and poetry, with an introduction by Colm Toibin Bankrupt and with his reputation in ruins, Oscar Wilde wrote the astonishing letter "De...
Published: Apr 2013
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 256
De Profundis and Other Writings
By: Oscar Wilde
I have nothing to declare,' Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius.' A good part of that genius is evident in the essays and poems included in this volume. There is the intellectual genius of 'The Soul of Man under...
Published: Aug 1976
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (anthologies)
Pages: 256
Picture of Dorian Gray
By: Oscar Wilde
Wilde's only novel, first published in 1890, is a brilliantly designed puzzle, intended to tease conventional minds with its exploration of the myriad interrelationships between art, life, and consequence. From its provocative Preface, challenging...
Published: Aug 1997
Genre: Fiction - Psychological
Salome: & Under the Hill (FORBIDDEN EROTIC CLASSICS)
By: Oscar Wilde
SALOME is an evocation of biblical horror in which blasphemies inflame an atmosphere that seethes with a dangerous erotic charge from the very outset. Relentless, hypnotic repetitions in the words, arranged in fugue cadences, lend the proceedings a...
Published: Jul 2012
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 128
Shorter Prose of Oscar Wilde, Includes the Soul of Man
By: Oscar Wilde
Large format for easy reading. Selection of short works from the famous dramatist, novelist and poet of the Victorian Era. A celebrity of his time and still renowned for his barbed wit.
Published: Nov 2005
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Pages: 68
Teleny or the Reverse of the Medal
By: Oscar Wilde
This homoerotic novel unmasked the cynical double moral standards of the Victorian era: The love of Camille and Teleny is shattered by social reprisals. It was originally published in 1893 by Leonard Smithers who praised it as being 'the most...
Published: Jan 2005
Genre: Fiction - Gay
Pages: 144
The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings (Signet Classics)
By: Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's infamous wit, taste for scandal, and gift for revealing the hypocrisies of fashionable society are on display here in this collection of his finest plays. A genius both of and ahead of his time, he built his craft on the eternal...
Published: May 2004
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 448
The Canterville Ghost
By: Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's timeless classic of an American family that buys a British manor -- complete with ghost! Filmed many times, its light tone and gentle chills continue to thrill new generations.
Published: Jan 2005
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 52
The Happy Prince And Other Stories
By: Oscar Wilde
Large format for easy reading. Collection of fairy stories from the famous dramatist, novelist and poet of the Victorian Era. A celebrity of his time and still renowned for his barbed wit.
Published: Nov 2005
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Pages: 52
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
By: Oscar Wilde
The Happy Prince is the tale of a young nobleman, who in life sought only pleasure but in death, as a gold-encrusted statue, provides aid to the needy. Also included are The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend, and The...
Published: Jul 2008
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Pages: 64
The House of Pomegranates
By: Oscar Wilde
Large format for easy reading. Collection of fairy stories from the famous dramatist, novelist and poet of the Victorian Era. A celebrity of his time and still renowned for his barbed wit.
Published: Oct 2005
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Pages: 88
The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
By: Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde was at once a family man and a homosexual outsider, a socialite, socialist, and Irish nationalist. His contradictions inspired him to ponder the roles and masks donned in conventional society, and his acute and wry insights are...
Published: Jul 2011
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 240
The Model Millionaire: Stories (Short Story Collections)
By: Oscar Wilde
UNLESS one is wealthy there is no use in being a charming fellow. Romance is the privilege of the rich, not the profession of the unemployed. The poor should be practical and prosaic. It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating....
Published: May 2009
Genre: Fiction - Short Stories (single Author)
Pages: 224
The Picture of Dorian Gray
By: Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray is a familiar story of greed, sin, and arrogance. A young man, infatuated with his own handsomeness and youth as depicted in a perfect portrait, makes a bargain he will come to regret. No one can save him from...
Published: Sep 1993
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 208
The Picture of Dorian Gray (With an Essay by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly)
By: Oscar Wilde
Perhaps the book that created the most general discussion and criticism at this period was "The Picture of Dorian Gray," which appeared originally in Lippincott's Magazine in July, 1890, as the complete novel for that issue... Wilde at...
Published: Oct 2010
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 166
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Tales
By: Oscar Wilde
An innocent's wish, once granted, gives rise to one of literature's most memorable villains in Oscar Wilde's tale of prodigal aestheticism, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray.' Under the tutelage of Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian is lead into a double life -...
Published: May 2006
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 360
The Portable Oscar Wilde (Viking Portable Library)
By: Oscar Wilde
The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest are accompanied by Wilde's prison memoirs, poems, and selected correspondence.
Published: Jul 1981
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 741
The Portrait of Mr W.H.
By: Oscar Wilde
In 1609, the first edition of Shakespeare’s Sonnets was published, featuring the mysterious dedication: “To Mr W.H.” Ever since, the identity of Mr W.H. has been the subject of a series of fascinating theories—but none quite...
Published: Aug 2003
Genre: Fiction - Classics
Pages: 112