Oscar Wilde: The Complete Collection

Oscar Wilde: The Complete Collection

His literary output, almost all written in the brief period 1889-1895, consists of some of the greatest works of English literature.

Included in this collection are :

• Vera, or, The Nihilists
• The Duchess of Padua
• Lady Windermere's Fan
• A Woman of No Importance
• An Ideal Husband
• The Importance of Being Earnest
• SaloméThe Woman Covered with Jewels
• A Florentine Tragedy
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890 and 1891 versions)
• The Happy Prince and Other Tales
• Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
• The Canterville Ghost
• The Sphinx Without a Secret
• The Model Millionaire
• The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
• A House of Pomegranates
• POEMS
• Intentions
• The Soul of Man under Socialism
• De Profundis
• Lectures, Essays, and Criticism

Author's Biography :

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 30 November 1900) was an Irish author, playwright andpoet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death.

Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish Dublin intellectuals. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater andJohn Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversation, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day.

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