Oscar Wilde
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.
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eBook | 592 pages | Bantam Classics | Fiction - Classics
978-0-307-75768-5 (0-307-75768-4)
May 9, 2012 | $5.99
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Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work...
Trade Paperback | 208 pages | Vintage | Fiction - Literary
978-0-307-74352-7 (0-307-74352-7)
July 26, 2011 | $8.95
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets.
Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted portrait, the youthful Dorian Gray expresses a wish that the figure on the canvas could age and change in...
eBook | 480 pages | Vintage | Drama - British & Irish
978-0-307-77260-2 (0-307-77260-8)
December 29, 2010 | $13.99
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This Vintage edition of The Plays_of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature.
Oscar Wilde's plays demonstrate once again why their author must be seen as both an...
eBook | 288 pages | Modern Library | Drama
978-0-307-75745-6 (0-307-75745-5)
July 21, 2010 | $9.99
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Oscar Wilde created his final and most lasting play, comic masterpieces of all time, THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST, in 1895. Considered one of the greatest THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST is a farce, playing with love, religion, and truth as it tells the tale of two men. Jack Worthing and...
eBook | 160 pages | Modern Library | Social Science - Gay Studies; Literary Criticism & Collections; Literary Criticism & Collections - Letters
978-0-307-75718-0 (0-307-75718-8)
June 30, 2010 | $11.99
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Written from Wilde's prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas's behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde's own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. At once a...
Trade Paperback | 256 pages | Vintage Classics | Fiction
978-0-09-951114-4 (0-09-951114-2)
September 4, 2007 | $10.95
eBook | pages | Bantam Classics | Fiction - Classics
978-0-553-90167-2 (0-553-90167-2)
June 28, 2005 | $7.99
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Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides
Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though...
Trade Paperback | 288 pages | Modern Library | Drama
978-0-8129-6714-2 (0-8129-6714-3)
June 8, 2004 | $13.95
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eBook | pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-679-64209-1 (0-679-64209-9)
November 1, 2000 | $7.99
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Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is his most popular work. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something of a scandal when it first appeared...
Trade Paperback | 160 pages | Modern Library | Social Science - Gay Studies; Literary Criticism & Collections; Literary Criticism & Collections - Letters
978-0-679-78321-3 (0-679-78321-0)
September 12, 2000 | $16.00
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Written from Wilde's prison cell at Reading Gaol to his friend and lover Lord Alfred Douglas, De Profundis explodes the conventions of the traditional love letter and offers a scathing indictment of Douglas's behavior, a mournful elegy for Wilde's own lost greatness, and an impassioned plea for reconciliation. At once a...
Trade Paperback | 304 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-375-75151-6 (0-375-75151-3)
June 1, 1998 | $10.00
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Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides
Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though...
Hardcover | 96 pages | Everyman's Library | Juvenile Fiction - Fairy Tales & Folklore - Anthologies
978-0-679-44473-2 (0-679-44473-4)
October 10, 1995 | $21.00
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A pleasure seeking prince, a selfish giant, and more: Wilde's fairy tales, first published in 1888, for childlike people from eighteen to eighty."
Hardcover | 272 pages | Modern Library | Fiction - Classics
978-0-679-60001-5 (0-679-60001-9)
September 5, 1992 | $21.00
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Introduction by Jeffrey Eugenides
Written in his distinctively dazzling manner, Oscar Wilde’s story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is the author’s most popular work. The tale of Dorian Gray’s moral disintegration caused a scandal when it first appeared in 1890, but though...
Hardcover | 728 pages | Everyman's Library | Fiction - Literary
978-0-679-40583-2 (0-679-40583-6)
November 26, 1991 | $26.95
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(Book Jacket Status: Not Jacketed)
Introduction by Terry Eagleton
Oscar Wilde has been acknowledged as the wittiest writer in the English language. This collection proves that he was also one of the most versatile. Effortlessly achieved, each revealing a different aspect of his brilliance, all of the plays, prose writings, and poems gathered...
Trade Paperback | 480 pages | Vintage | Drama - British & Irish
978-0-394-75788-9 (0-394-75788-2)
May 12, 1988 | $19.95
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This Vintage edition of The Plays_of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature.
Oscar Wilde's plays demonstrate once again why their author must be seen as both an...















