About. OSCAR WILDE (1854–1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and playwright. He is the author of the novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the play, The Importance of Being Earnest. Biography Oscar Fingal OFlahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of Londons most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. Wildes parents were successful Dublin intellect... See More Description OSCAR WILDE (1854–1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and playwright. His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, brought him lasting recognition, and he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era with a series of witty social satires, including his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest. Favorite Books WORKS PLAYS... • Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880) • The Duchess of Padua (1883) • Lady Windermeres Fan (1892) • A Woman of No Importance (1893) • Salomé (French version) (1893, first performed in Paris 1896) • Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas, illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley (1894) • An Ideal Husband (1895) (text) • The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) (text) • La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy Fragmentary. First published 1908 in Methuens Collected Works (Dates are dates of first performance, which approximate better with the probable date of composition than dates of publication.) • The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays. Penguin Classics, 2000. Edited with an Introduction, Commentaries and Notes by Richard Allen Cave. Contains all from above save the first two. Salome is in English. As an appendix there is one excised scene from The Importance of Being Earnest. FICTION... Novel • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890) The first version of The Picture of Dorian Gray, published as the lead story in the July 1890 edition of Lippincotts Monthly Magazine, along with five other novels. Wilde revised it extensively, adding six new chapters at the behest of his publisher for publication in book form the following year. Stories • The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (1889) • The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888, fairy tales) • A House of Pomegranates (1891, fairy tales) • Lord Arthur Saviles Crime and Other Stories (1891) including The Canterville Ghost first published in periodical form in 1887. • Complete Short Fiction. Penguin Classics, 2003. Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Ian Small. Contains all works listed above plus Poems in Prose (1894) and one very short Elder-tree (fragment) Poems • Ravenna (1878), winner of the Newdigate Prize • Poems (1881), Wildes collection of poetry and first publication • The Sphinx (1894) • Poems in Prose (1894) • The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) ESSAYS... • The Decay of Lying (First published in 1889, republished in Intentions 1891) • Pen, Pencil and Poison First published in the Fortnightly Review, later included in Intentions • The Soul of Man under Socialism (first published in the Fortnightly Review, February 1891,[3] first book publication 1904) • Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (First published in the Oxford student magazine The Chameleon, December, 1894) (Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young on Wikisource) • A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated First published, anonymously, in the 1894 November 17 issue of Saturday Review. Wilde revised his dialogues on aesthetic subjects for publication as * Intentions (1891, it comprises The Critic as Artist, The Decay of Lying, Pen, Pencil and Poison and The Truth of Masks) POSTHUMOUS... • De Profundis (Written 1897, Expurgated edition published 1905, complete edition 1962 in collected letters) • The Rise of Historical Criticism , written while he was at Oxford, published in 1909 • The Letters of Oscar Wilde (1962) Edited by Ruper Hart Davis; Re-released in 2000, with letters discovered since 1962, and new annotations by Merlin Holland. • De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and Other Writings. Wordsworth Classics, 2002. Introduction and Notes by Anne Varty. The other writings are The Critic as Artist, The Decay of Lying and The Soul of Man under Socialism.
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