This Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories and one novel is celebrated for his biting wit and abundant aphorisms. He rose to prominence as one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, becoming a major celebrity of his time. Several of his plays remain widely performed, particularly those exploring societal expectations with sharp humor. Despite a dramatic personal downfall leading to imprisonment, his distinctive literary voice and enduring works continue to captivate audiences.
Oscar Wilde was Ireland’s greatest and most inspired wit. The brilliance of his writing is collected in this complete volume. Readers will relish his only novel The Portrait Dorian Gray; all of his plays including A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of being Earnest; essays; poems and stories for both children and adults.
This collection compiles the works of Oscar Wilde into a single, high-quality, and affordable Kindle volume. It includes all of his complete plays such as "Vera; or, The Nihilists," "The Duchess of Padua," "Lady Windermere's Fan," "A Woman of No Importance," "Salomé," "An Ideal Husband," and "The Importance of Being Earnest," along with fragments like "A Florentine Tragedy" and "La Sainte Courtisane." Additionally, it features his prose, short stories, and novels, including "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime," "The Picture of Dorian Gray," and "Teleny." The collection also contains his complete poems and non-fiction works, such as "Intentions," "The Soul of Man Under Socialism," "De Profundis," and various essays and lectures addressing art, literature, and society. Wilde’s exploration of themes like aesthetics, morality, and social critique shines through his diverse writings. This comprehensive volume serves as an essential resource for both new readers and long-time admirers of Wilde's literary genius, encapsulating his wit, insight, and profound impact on literature and culture.
Treachery, blackmail, theft, and above all, self-interest abound in An Ideal Husband, the first drawing-room comedy to address political sleaze. In Wilde's more light-hearted comedy masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, nothing is sacred. Wilde's dazzling barbed epigrams are directed at all that English high-society holds dear. 'The only pure verbal opera in English' (W.H. Auden), this play presents some of the most celebrated comic scenes in English drama -- Publisher's note on back cover.
One of the greatest playwrights in the English language, Oscar Wilde was also a legendary wit and a poetic provocateur. He was put on trial and sentenced to two years of hard labor for "gross indecency" by the same English society whose hypocrisy he had put on stage to great effect. His refusal to renounce his homosexuality and love for Lord Alfred Douglas ("Bosie") made him first a martyr and later an icon for free love and a myth onto himself. This edition of surviving letters that Wilde wrote to his "own dear darling boy" is a testament to the enduring power and radical force of love. Included are the introductory essays by legendary bookseller A. S. W. Rosenbach and philanthropist William Clark, who first published these letters in 1924, and a little-known letter from Douglas to Wilde.
"Like two doomed ships that pass in storm We had crossed each other's way: But we made no sign, we said no word, We had no word to say" -Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) The poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) by Oscar Wilde, was inspired by the two years he spent in the jail of Reading Gaol, England. There he experienced the hanging of Royal Horse Guards trooper Charles Thomas Wooldridge, convicted for the murder of his wife. This poem, dedicated to Wooldridge, describes not only his execution, but is also an indictment of the Victorian penal system and a plea for reform of prison conditions. This poem, Wilde's last publication, was very successful and assured he had a steady income until his death at a young age in 1900.
Summary: Nine tales include "The Remarkable Rocket, " "The Nightingale and the Rose, " and "The Selfish Giant."
This collection contains all the stories, plays and poems by Oscar Wilde, and includes the novel "A Picture of Dorian Gray".
Includes the following works: Novels- The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays-Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings-De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest are accompanied by Wilde's prison memoirs, poems, and selected correspondence
A volume incorporating much of the best of Wilde's The Critic As Artist; The Picture of Dorian Grey; The Soul of Man Under Socialism; Lady Windermere's Fan; The Importance of Being Ernest; The Ballad of Reading Gaol; The Harlot's House; The Sphinx; The Artist; The House of Judgment; A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over Educated.
