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  • Author: Wilde, Oscar
    Contributor: Murray, Isobel
    Date:
    Issued
    2013
    Summary:

    This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wilde's poetry and prose short stories, plays, critical dialogues and his only novel - to give the essence of his work and thinking.

    Contents:
    • Fiction: Lord Arthur Savile's crime. The happy prince. The devoted friend. The picture of Dorian Gray --
    • Critical dialogues: The decay of lying. The critic as artist (2 parts) --
    • Plays: Salome. Lady Windermere's fan. An ideal husband. The importance of being Earnest --
    • Poems: The harlot's house. The sphinx. The ballad of Reading gaol --
    • Poems in prose: The artist. The disciple. The house of judgment --
    • Aphorisms: A few maxims for the instruction of the over-educated. Phrases and philosophies for the use of the young
    Genre:
    Poetry, Short stories
    Subject(s): Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 | Authors, Irish | English drama--Irish authors
    Original Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008
    Language(s): English