Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

Name: Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Author: Unknown Author
ISBN: 9780004723839

by Unknown Author

1268 pages1999HarperCollins PublishersISBN 9780004723839

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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.

Publication Details

Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 1999
Pages: 1268
ISBN: 9780004723839
Language: en

About Unknown Author

An Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete. Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories, and one novel. Known for his biting wit, and a plentitude of aphorisms, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest. As the result of a widely covered series of trials, Wilde suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years hard labour after being convicted of "gross indecency" with other men. After Wilde was released from prison he set sail for Dieppe by the night ferry. He never returned to Ireland or Britain, and died in poverty.