Oscar Wilde: Complete Works (Stories, Poems, Plays & Essays)

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HarperPerennial

Paperback.

Contains his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, with all his stories, plays, and poems as well as a substantial number of his essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts. The Importance of Being Earnest, for example, is given in the original four-act version, with readings from revised edition, while "De Profundis", his moving and tragic letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, is from the manuscript held by the British Museum until 1960--the only complete and accurate source. This is the first one-volume anthology to include "The Portrait of Mr. W. H.", in which Wilde expanded his theory concerning the mystery of Shakespeare's sonnets, and also "A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated", a series of aphorisms typical of Wilde. It carries too an introduction by Vyvyan Holland, Oscar Wilde's son.

Paperback: 1216 pages

 

Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford where, a disciple of Pater, he founded an aesthetic cult. In 1884 he married Constance Lloyd, and his two sons were born in 1885 and 1886.
His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and social comedies Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), established his reputation. In 1895, following his libel action against the Marquess of Queesberry, Wilde was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for homosexual conduct, as a result of which he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), and his confessional letter De Profundis (1905). On his release from prison in 1897 he lived in obscurity in Europe, and died in Paris in 1900.