Oscar Wilde - The Major Works
Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

Author: Oscar Wilde

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Published: 2000-07-06

Total Pages: 673

ISBN-13: 0191606308

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This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wilde's poetry and prose short stories, plays, critical dialogues and his only novel - to give the essence of his work and thinking. 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. In addition to Dorian Gray, this volume represents all these genres, including such works as Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest, 'The Happy Prince', 'The Critic as Artist', and 'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.

Complete Poetry
Complete Poetry

Author: Oscar Wilde

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 9780192835260

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A powerful poem of universal guilt and a protest against capital punishment.

Making Oscar Wilde
Making Oscar Wilde

Author: Michèle Mendelssohn

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 0198802366

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Packed with new evidence, Making Oscar Wilde tells the untold story of a local Irish eccentric who became a global cultural icon. This must-read book dramatizes Oscar Wilde's remarkable rise in Victorian England and post-Civil War America. Michèle Mendelssohn interweaves biography and social history to reveal a life like no other.

Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

Author: John Sloan

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 9780192840646

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Authors in Context examines the work of major writers in relation to their own time and to the present day. Combining history with lively literary discussion, each volume provides comprehensive insight into texts in their context. Wit, dandy, literary anarchist, self-publicist, and homosexual martyr: Wilde achieved fame and notoriety at a time when mass culture and communication promoted the 'new' in every area of British life - 'New Women', 'New Hedonism', 'New Journalism', 'New Imperialism'. His plays, tales, and critical writings questioned traditional attitudes to religion, sexuality, women and the home, crime and punishment, and the freedom of the individual. This book examines the rich interplay between Wilde's society and his writings and shows the remarkable recontextualizing of Wilde and his work on stage, in film and the media in the century that has followed his death.

The Essential Oscar Wilde
The Essential Oscar Wilde

Author: Oscar Wilde

Publisher: Simon and Schuster

Published: 2013-08-20

Total Pages: 605

ISBN-13: 1627933654

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Collected her in one omnibus edition are Oscar Wilde's most important works including The Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome, Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde, The Soul of Man Under Socialism, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, and The Canterville Ghost. These works of poetry, fiction, drama, and prose encompass Wilde's entire career and they display his range of style and wit. Wilde is one of the most important writers in the history of the English language. Wilder Publications is a green publisher. All of our books are printed to order. This reduces waste and helps us keep prices low while greatly reducing our impact on the environment.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings
The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

Author: Oscar Wilde

Publisher: Bantam Classics

Published: 2012-05-09

Total Pages: 594

ISBN-13: 0307757684

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Flamboyant and controversial, 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 his immensely popular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” a product of his own prison experience; and four complete plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first dramatic success, An Ideal Husband, which pokes fun at conventional morality, The Importance of Being Earnest, his finest comedy, and Salomé, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written in French and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann. Every selection appears in its entirety–a marvelous collection of outstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who’s been aptly called “a lord of language” by Max Beerbohm.

Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece
Oscar Wilde and Ancient Greece

Author: Iain Ross

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2013

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1107020328

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Oscar Wilde's imagination was haunted by ancient Greece; this book traces its presence in his life and works.

The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde
The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde

Author: Merlin Holland

Publisher: Henry Holt and Company

Published: 2000-12-01

Total Pages: 1408

ISBN-13: 9780805059151

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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 with newly discovered letters, the full extent of that genius is unveiled. Charting his life from his Irish upbringing to fame in his fin de siècle London to infamy and exile in Paris, the letters--written between 1875 and 1900 to publishers and fans, friends and lovers, enemies and adversaries--resound with Wilde's wit, brilliance, and humanity. Wilde's grandson, Merlin Holland, and Rupert Hart-Davis have produced a provocative and revealing self-portrait. Wilde's reputation as a serious thinker, humorous writer, and gay icon continues to flourish. The Complete Letters is an intimate exploration of his life and thoughts--Wilde in his own words.