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New selection with introduction, suggestions for further reading, and full explanatory notes Selection includes The Portrait of Mr W.H., Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from 'Intentions'...

Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in...

Penguin Classics relaunch Wilde was both a glittering wordsmith and a social outsider. His drama emerges out of these two perhaps contradictory identities, combining epigrammatic brilliance and shrewd social observation....

Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: Who would have thought a comedy of manners written more than a hundred years ago would still be so apt and so...

Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord Henry Wotton, he is drawn into a corrupt double...

Oscar Wilde's only novel- dark, captivating and intensely Victorian WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY IRVINE WELSH Dorian is a good-natured young man until he discovers the power of his own exceptional...

Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 384 A selection of Oscar Wilde's best and most important plays - sharp, relevant and brilliant to this day A selection of...

Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: An account of Oscar Wilde's spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his new, shocking conviction that 'the supreme vice is shallowness'....

A new selection of the powerful and moving letters and poems Wilde wrote in prison, edited with an introduction by Colm T ibin At the start of 1895, Oscar Wilde...

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Condition remarks:Book: Fair Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Yellowed Markings: Previous ownerThe Importance of Being Earnest is a satirical play by Oscar Wilde that critiques Victorian social hypocrisy. Set in the...

Wilde's classic tale of corrupted innocence and debauchery, part of a new series of five Oscar Wilde titles Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for...

Oscar Wilde took London by storm with his first comedy, 'Lady Windermere's Fan'. The combination of dazzling wit, subtle social criticism, sumptuous settings and the theme of a guilty secret...

Oscar Wilde's early fame ensured that throughout his short life he was written about by many of those he met. He was celebrated - or mocked - as the master...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: N/APages: Good Markings: No markingsA sweeping treasury of one of literature's most brilliant and irreverent voices, this comprehensive collection gathers the full range of Oscar Wilde's...

There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about', said Oscar Wilde more than a hundred years ago. But...

Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Good , price clippedMarkings: No markingsA richly detailed literary biography, Sheridan Morley's work chronicles the dazzling and ultimately tragic...

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Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Wear and tearPages: Good Markings: No markingsThis book provides a fascinating insight into the life and wit of Oscar Wilde, exploring his background, influences, and literary...

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Edition: 1st us ed.,Condition remarks:Book: Good Jacket: Chipped and worn with some minor damagePages: Yellowed Markings: No markingsThe Unrecorded Life of Oscar Wilde presents a confident literary biography that chronicles...

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Recounted almost word for word by Wilde hims elf, Juliet Gardiner provides the reader with extracts from his extensive literary portfolio both written and spoken, in private and in public,...

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More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine , the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the...

Neil McKenna's The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde charts fully for the first time Oscar's astonishing erotic odyssey through Victorian London's sexual underworld. Oscar Wilde emerges as a man driven...

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was born in Dublin, the son of a surgeon and a poet. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the...

Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback  Number of Pages: 192 The Ballad of Reading Gaol is Wilde's most moving poem, publishing as part of a new series of five Oscar Wilde...

A collection of Wilde's most charming and well-loved tales, as part of a new series of five Oscar Wilde titles A collection of stories, including two of Wilde's most famous-...

'A charmingly whimsical delight. . . Five dazzling, gladdening stars' India Holton, author of The Wisteria Society of Lady Scoundrels The third instalment in the enchanting light academia Emily Wilde...

Published to follow the release of the new movie of Wilde's life, starring Stephen Fry, this collection displays Wilde's fabulous verbal dexterity. Based on two books published during his lifetime...

In this brilliant collection of essays, part of a new series of five Oscar Wilde titles, Wilde wittily portrays the reversal of society's norms In 'The Decay of Lying' Oscar...

Author: Oscar Wilde Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 194 Enthralled by his own exquisite portrait, Dorian Gray exchanges his soul for eternal youth and beauty. Influenced by his friend Lord...

'I have nothing to declare,' Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius.' A good part of that genius is evident in the essays and poems included in...

Condition remarks: Condition: Good to fair. Paperback. Page Condition: Good - possible tanning. Markings: possible previous owner inscription. Few writers in the English literary canon command the stage with the...

A wistful fictional love letter to old Hollywood and the films of Billy Wilder, moving from sunny Greece to a modern-day Britain, from one of our greatest British authors. A...