Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde : Centenary Edition

by Wilde, Oscar; Holland, Merlin

• ISBN13: 9780004723839
• ISBN10: 000472383X
• Edition: 100th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1999-10-01
• Publisher: Trafalgar Square

Summary

Continuously in print since 1948, Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been established as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume collection of Wilde's writing. It includes his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays, and letters -- all in their most authoritative texts. This new illustrated centenary edition also incorporates recent revisions to the text of his poetic masterpiece, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol", as well as introductions by Merlin Holland (Wilde's grandson), Owen Dudley Edwards, Declan Kiberd, and Terence Brown. Completing this handsome new edition are a comprehensive bibliography and a chronology of Oscar Wilde's life and work.

Table of Contents

The Contributors	x
Introduction to the 1994 Edition	1	(6)
Merlin Holland
Introduction to the 1966 Editiony	7	(6)
Vyvyan Holland
Introduction to the Stories	13	(4)
Owen Dudley Edwards
STORIES
The Picture of Dorian Gray	17	(143)
Lord Arthur Saville's Crime	160	(24)
The Canterville Ghost	184	(21)
The Sphinx Without a Secret	205	(4)
The Model Millionaire	209	(4)
A House of Pomegranates
The Young King	213	(10)
The Birthday of the Infanta	223	(13)
The Fisherman and his Soul	236	(24)
The Star-Child	260	(11)
The Happy Prince
The Happy Prince	271	(7)
The Nightingale and the Rose	278	(5)
The Selfish Giant	283	(3)
The Devoted Friend	286	(8)
The Remarkable Rocket	294	(8)
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.	302	(50)
Introduction to the Plays	352	(5)
Terence Brown
PLAYS
The Importance of Being Earnest	357	(63)
Lady Windermere's Fan	420	(45)
A Woman of No Importance	465	(50)
An Ideal Husband	515	(68)
Salome	583	(23)
The Duchess of Padua	606	(75)
Vera, or the Nihilists	681	(40)
A Florentine Tragedy	721	(13)
La Sainte Courtisane	734	(5)
Introduction to the Poems	739	(6)
Declan Kiberd
POEMS
Ye Shall Be Gods	745	(2)
Chorus of the Cloud Maidens	747	(1)
From Spring Days to Winter	748	(1)
Requiescat	748	(1)
San Miniato	749	(1)
By The Arno	749	(1)
Rome Unvisited	750	(2)
La Bella Donna Della Mia Mente	752	(1)
Chanson	753	(1)
Untitled (See the gold sun has risen)	753	(1)
Untitled (She stole behind him where he lay)	754	(1)
The Dole of the King's Daughter	755	(1)
Love Song	756	(1)
Tristitiae	757	(1)
The True Knowledge	758	(1)
Heart's Yearnings	758	(1)
The Little Ship	759	(1)
ΘPHNΩIΔIA (Song of Lamentation)	760	(2)
Lotus Land	762	(1)
Desespoir	763	(1)
Lotus Leaves	763	(2)
Untitled (O loved one lying far away)	765	(1)
A Fragment from The Agamemnon of Aeschylos	766	(2)
A Vision	768	(1)
Sonnet on Approaching Italy	768	(1)
Sonnet (written in Holy Week at Genoa)	769	(1)
Impression de Voyage	769	(1)
The Theatre at Argos	769	(1)
Urbs Sacra Aeterna	770	(1)
The Grave of Keats	770	(1)
Sonnet: on the massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria	771	(1)
Easter Day	771	(1)
Sonnet: on hearing the Dies Irae sung in the Sistine Chapel	772	(1)
Italia	772	(1)
Vita Nuova	773	(1)
E Tenebris	773	(1)
Quantum Mutata	773	(1)
To Milton	774	(1)
Ave Maria Gratia Plena	774	(1)
Wasted Days	775	(1)
The Grave of Shelley	775	(1)
Santa Decca	776	(1)
Theoretikos	776	(1)
Amor Intellectualis	777	(1)
At Verona	777	(1)
Ravenna	778	(8)
Magdalen Walks	786	(1)
The Burden of Itys	786	(9)
Theocritus	795	(1)
Nocturne	796	(1)
Endymion	796	(1)
Charmides	797	(17)
Ballade de Marguerite	814	(1)
La Belle Gabrielle	815	(1)
Humanitad	816	(10)
Athanasia	826	(2)
The New Helen	828	(2)
Panthea	830	(5)
Phedre	835	(1)
Queen Henrietta Maria	835	(1)
Louis Napoleon	836	(1)
Madonna Mia	836	(1)
Roses and Rue	837	(2)
Portia	839	(1)
Apologia	839	(1)
Quia Multum Amavi	840	(1)
Silentium Amoris	841	(1)
Her Voice	841	(1)
My Voice	842	(1)
ΓΛYKYΠIKPOΣEPΩΣ (Sweet, I blame you not...)	843	(1)
The Garden of Eros	844	(7)
Ave Imperatrix	851	(3)
Pan	854	(2)
The Artist's Dream or San Artysty	856	(2)
Libertatis Sacra Fames	858	(1)
Sonnet to Liberty	859	(1)
Taedium Vitae	859	(1)
Fabien Dei Franchi	860	(1)
Serenade	860	(1)
Camma	861	(1)
Impression du Matin	862	(1)
In the Gold Room	862	(1)
Impressions: 1. Les Silhouettes; 2. La Fuite de la Lune	863	(1)
Impression: Le Reveillion	864	(1)
Helas!	864	(1)
To V. F.	864	(1)
To M. B. J.	865	(1)
Impressions: 1. Le Jardin; 2. La Mer	865	(1)
Le Jardin Des Tuileries	866	(1)
The Harlot's House	867	(1)
Fantasies Decoratives	868	(1)
Under the Balcony	869	(1)
To My Wife	870	(1)
On the Sale By Auction of Keats' Love Letters	870	(1)
The New Remorse	871	(1)
Canzonet	871	(1)
With a Copy of 'A House of Pomegranates'	872	(1)
Symphony in Yellow	872	(1)
La Dame Jaune	873	(1)
Remorse	873	(1)
In The Forest	874	(1)
The Sphinx	874	(9)
The Ballad of Reading Gaol	883	(17)
POEMS IN PROSE
The Artist	900	(1)
The Doer of Good	900	(1)
The Disciple	901	(1)
The Master	901	(1)
The House of Judgment	902	(1)
The Teacher of Wisdom	903	(4)
Introduction to Essays, Selected Journalism, Lectures and Letters	907	(6)
Merlin Holland
ESSAYS, SELECTED JOURNALISM, LECTURES AND LETTERS
The House Beautiful	913	(13)
The Decorative Arts	926	(12)
Personal Impressions of America	938	(4)
Mrs Langtry as Hester Grazebrook	942	(3)
Woman's Dress	945	(3)
Mr Whistler's Ten O'Clock	948	(2)
Dinners and Dishes	950	(2)
Hamlet at the Lyceum	952	(3)
Olivia at the Lyceum	955	(2)
A Handbook to Marriage	957	(2)
Balzac in English	959	(3)
A Ride Through Morocco	962	(2)
The American Invasion	964
Two Biographies of Keats	957	(13)
Aristotle at Afternoon Tea	970	(3)
Mr Morris on Tapestry	973	(2)
London Models	975	(5)
De Profundis	980	(80)
Two Letters to the Daily Chronicle	1060	(11)
The Decay of Lying	1071	(22)
Pen, Pencil and Poison	1093	(15)
The Critic as Artist	1108	(48)
The Truth of Masks	1156	(18)
The Soul of Man Under Socialism	1174	(24)
The Rise of Historical Criticism	1198	(44)
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated	1242	(2)
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young	1244	(14)
APPENDICES
A Chronological Table	1247	(5)
B Order of Poems (1882)	1252	(2)
C List of Original Dedications in Wilde's Published Works	1254	(1)
D Index of First Lines of Poems	1255	(3)
Bibliography	1258