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The Picture of Dorian Gray , by Oscar Wilde , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from today's top writers and... (more)

The Importance of Being Earnest

by Oscar Wilde

Witty and buoyant comedy of manners is brilliantly plotted from its effervescent first act to its hilarious denouement, and filled with some of literature’s most famous epigrams. Widely considered Wilde’s most perfect work, the play is reprinted here from an authoritative early British edition. Note to the Dover Edition.

Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

by Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde, best known for his acerbic, witty plays and urbane nonfiction, was also a master of the fairy tale. This volume brings together all of Wilde's tales from his two collections--"The Happy Prince" and "The House of Pomegranates"--and retains the evocative illustrations done for the original editions. **MASS MARKET PAPER**

Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings (Bantam Classics)

Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings (Bantam Classics)

by Oscar Wilde

ENDURING LITERATURE ILLUMINATED BY PRACTICAL SCHOLARSHIP The classic Gothic tale of horror that explores the pleasures and dangers of a life of decadence. EACH ENRICHED CLASSIC EDITION INCLUDES: • A concise introduction that gives readers important background information • A chronology of the author's life and work • A timeline of significant events that provides the book's historical context • An outline of... (more)

Oscar Wilde

by Richard Ellmann

The biography sensitive to the tragic pattern of the story of a great subject: Oscar Wilde - psychologically and sexually complicated, enormously quotable, central to a alluring cultural world and someone whose life assumed an unbearably dramatic shape.

Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

by Oscar Wilde

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 works available, containing his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays, and letters—all in their most authoritative texts. Edited and introduced by Merlin Holland, Wilde’s grandson, this... (more)

Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance: A Mystery

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Oscar Wilde and a Death of No Importance: A Mystery

by Gyles Daubeney Brandreth

One of Britain's premier royal biographers pens the first in a series of fiendishly clever and stylish historical murder mysteries Lovers of historical mystery will relish this chilling Victorian tale based on real events and cloaked in authenticity. Best of all, it casts British literature's most fascinating and controversial figure as the lead sleuth. A young artist's model has been murdered, and legendary wit... (more)

De Profundis

by W. H. Auden, Oscar Wilde

While jailed for homosexual offenses, Wilde wrote this long, bitter letter of recrimination to his lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. It offers fascinating insights into Wilde’s life in prison and the background and psychology of a notorious affair, but its eloquence, passion and literary excellence make it a universal statement about love, injustice and suffering.

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Three Stories

by Oscar Wilde

The classic of gothic horror is accompanied by three short stories--""Lord Arthur Savile's Crime,"" ""The Happy Prince,"" and ""The Birthday of the Infanta""--and a new introduction by Gary Schmidgall, author of The Stranger Wilde.

Lady Windermere's Fan

by William-Alan Landes, Oscar Wilde

When "Lady Windermere's Fan" opened in 1892, it ran for 150 performances. The play contains many of Oscar Wilde's most quoted aphorisms. To this day, it continues to be revived frequently. The music supplementing the readings is by Beethoven and Johann Baptist Cramer.

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Second Edition (Norton Critical Edition)

The Picture of Dorian Gray, Second Edition (Norton Critical Edition)

by Oscar Wilde

This Norton Critical Edition is the only edition available that includes both the 1890 Lippincott’s and the 1891 book versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray , allowing students to compare the two published versions with the editorial guidance of Michael Patrick Gillespie. “Backgrounds” and “Reviews and Reactions” allow readers to gauge the novel’s sensational reception and to consider the heated public... (more)

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics S.)

The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (Collins Classics S.)

by Oscar Wilde

Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his... (more)

The Importance of Being Earnest and Four (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)

The Importance of Being Earnest and Four (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (B&N Classics Trade Paper)

by Oscar Wilde

The Importance of Being Earnest and Four Other Plays , by Oscar Wilde , is part of the Barnes & Noble Classics series, which offers quality editions at affordable prices to the student and the general reader, including new scholarship, thoughtful design, and pages of carefully crafted extras. Here are some of the remarkable features of Barnes & Noble Classics : New introductions commissioned from... (more)

The Plays of Oscar Wilde (Vintage Classics)

The Plays of Oscar Wilde (Vintage Classics)

by Oscar Wilde, Alyssa Harad

Oscar Wilde was at once a family man and a homosexual outsider, a socialite, socialist, and Irish nationalist. His contradictions inspired him to ponder the roles and masks donned in conventional society, and his acute and wry insights are wonderfully displayed in this collection of his essential plays. Known not only for his brilliant, epigrammatic language, but also for his sense of theatrical design, color, and... (more)

An Ideal Husband (Collected Works of Oscar Wilde)

An Ideal Husband (Collected Works of Oscar Wilde)

by Oscar Wilde

Wilde’s scintillating drawing-room comedy revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, and a formidable femme fatale exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the action of the play at a lively pace.

The Picture of Dorian Gray

by Oscar Wilde

A young man of rare beauty, Dorian Gray is the very picture of the ideal British gentleman. When he is drawn into a life of decadence and lustful indulgence, he discovers a painting begins to bear new marks for each of his sins, leaving him as youthful and attractive as ever. And so begins Dorian's descent into a personal hell of lies, murder, and depravity.

Happy Prince and Other Stories, the (Penguin Popular Classics)

Happy Prince and Other Stories, the (Penguin Popular Classics)

by Oscar Wilde

These special fairy tales, which Oscar Wilde made up for his own sons, include "The Happy Prince", who was not as happy as he seemed; "The Selfish Giant", who learned to love little children; and "The Star Child", who suffered bitter trials when he rejected his parents...Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry and magic.

The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories

by Oscar Wilde

Four of the famed English writer's finest works, among them "The Sphinx Without a Secret," "The Model Millionaire," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime," and the title story, a delightfully comical tale of a 300-year-old ghost who fails to intimidate the newest occupants of his manor house. Also includes the author's six "Poems in Prose."

The Picture of Dorian Grey

by Oscar Wilde

Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion

by Jack Zipes, Jack David Zipes

The fairy tale may be one of the most important cultural and social influences on children's lives. But until Fairy Tales and the Art of Subversion little attention had been paid to the ways in which the writers and collectors of tales used traditional forms and genres in order to shape children's lives -- their behavior, values, and relationship to society. As Jack Zipes convincingly shows, fairy tales have... (more)

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