Oscar Wilde - The Major Works

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.Oscar Wilde`s dramatic private life has sometimes threatened to overshadow his great literary achievements. His talent was prodigious: the author of brilliant social comedies, fairy stories, critical dialogues, poems, and a novel,`The Picture of Dorian Gray`.In addition to`Dorian Gray`, this volume represents all these genres, including such works as`Lady Windermere`s Fan`and`The Importance of Being Earnest`,`The Happy Prince`,`The Critic as Artist`, and`The Ballad of Reading Gaol`.