In print since 1948, this is a single-volume collection of Oscar Wilde's texts. It contains his only novel, "The Portrait of Dorian Gray" as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters. Illustrated with many photographs, the book includes introductions to each section by Wilde's grandon, Merlin Holoand, Owen Dudley Edwards, Declan Kibertd and Terence Brown. A comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Oscar Wilde together with a chronological table of his life and work are also included.

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on October 16, 1854, in Dublin. His parents were William (afterwards Sir William) Wilde, a renowned ear and eye surgeon, and Jane Francesca Wilde, who, under the name 'Speranza', wrote political articles for the Young Ireland movement. Oscar was educated at Trinity College, Dublin, and at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became a leading light of the so-called 'Aesthetic Movement' (satirised by Gilbert and Sullivan in Patience) and was recognised as one of the most prominent wits of the age. Plays such as Lady Windermere's Fan (1893) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) established him as the most important contemporary dramatist; other great works included several children's stories, such as The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1891), and much important art criticism. He was imprisoned for homosexuality in 1895, serving his time in Wandsworth Prison and Reading Gaol. His wife obtained a legal separation from him, and he never saw her or his two sons again. On his release in 1897, he settled in France, and died from cerebral meningitis in Paris, in 1900

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