The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings [Mass Market Paperback]

Oscar Wilde (Author), Sylvan Barnet (Introduction)

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Publication Date: May 4, 2004

An extraordinary volume for fans and students

Including The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, A Woman of No Importance, Lady Windermere's Fan, and Salomé, this collection showcases Wilde's brilliance and timeless wit.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 432 pages
• Publisher: Signet Classics (May 4, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0451529340
• ISBN-13: 978-0451529343
• Product Dimensions: 6.8 x 4.2 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
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Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854. He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford where, a disciple of Pater, he founded an aesthetic cult. In 1884 he married Constance Lloyd, and his two sons were born in 1885 and 1886.
His novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and social comedies Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), established his reputation. In 1895, following his libel action against the Marquess of Queesberry, Wilde was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for homosexual conduct, as a result of which he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), and his confessional letter De Profundis (1905). On his release from prison in 1897 he lived in obscurity in Europe, and died in Paris in 1900.

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In this very special edition of Wilde's theatre, it seems that the commentator is a personal enemy of Mr. Wilde We must remember that Wilde is the unique dramatist that adds sweetnes, tenderness, cynicism, wit and bitter critic of his own age. Even though it devoured him (or the Marquis of Queensberry), but the charm, delight and finess of Wilde's theatre is forever and for everybody. I recommend it most enthusiastically.