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'.
Contents:
Fiction Lord Arthur Savile's Crime The Happy Prince The Devoted Friend The Picture of Dorian Gray
Critical Dialogues The Decay of Lying The Critic as Artist Part I The Critic as Artist Part II
Plays Salome Lady Windermere's Fan An Ideal Husband The Importance of Being Earnest
Poems The Harlot's House The Sphinx The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Poems in Prose The Artist The Disciple The House of Judgement
Aphorisms A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young