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The Portable Oscar Wilde » (REV)

Book cover image of The Portable Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde

Authors: Oscar Wilde, Stanley Weintraub (Editor), Richard Aldington
ISBN-13: 9780140150933, ISBN-10: 0140150935
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA)
Date Published: July 1981
Edition: REV

Author Biography: Oscar Wilde

The ever-quotable Oscar Wilde once said, "Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it." From his outsize celebrity in Victorian London to his authorship of fiction, drama, and poetry that uniquely captured his era, it's fair to say that Wilde succeeded on both counts.

Book Synopsis

Includes the following works: Novels- The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays-Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings-De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance.

	Introduction	1
	Some Dates in the Life of Oscar Wilde
	The Critic as Artist
	The Picture of Dorian Gray
	Salome
	The Importance of Being Earnest
	De Profundis	508
	Poems, Poems in Prose, and a Fairy Tale	659
	Helas!	659
	from Ave Imperatrix	659
	Requiescat	660
	from The Burden of Itys	661
	from Charmides	661
	Symphony in Yellow	664
	The Harlot's House	664
	On the Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letters	665
	Portia: Written at the Lyceum Theatre	666
	The Ballad of Reading Gaol	667
	The Selfish Giant	690
	Reviews	696
	from A Bevy of Poets	696
	from Pleasing and Prattling	697
	from A "Jolly" Art Critic	698
	from A Cheap Edition of a Great Man	699
	from The Poets' Corner, III	699
	from The Poets' Corner, V	700
	from Poetry and Prison	701
	Letters from Oscar Wilde	703
	to Mrs George Lewis	703
	to Mrs Bernard Beere	704
	to Robert H. Sherard	707
	to Constance Lloyd Wilde	709
	to the Editor of the Scots Observer	709
	to Bernard Shaw	712
	to the Editor of The Times	712
	to Grace Hawthorne	713
	to Lord Alfred Douglas	714
	to Robert Ross	715
	to Lord Alfred Douglas	716
	to the Home Secretary	718
	to Carlos Blacker	724
	to Reginald Turner	727
	to Leonard Smithers	728
	to Robert Ross	730
	Wildean Wit from the Other Comedies	733
I	from Lady Windermere's Fan	733
II	from A Woman of No Importance	734
III	from An Ideal Husband	737
	Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young	739