The Complete Works (Collector's Library Editions) - Hardcover

Wilde, Oscar

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1904633986 ISBN 13: 9781904633983

Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library, 2006

Synopsis

Oscar Wilde was Ireland’s greatest and most inspired wit. The brilliance of his writing is collected in this complete volume. Readers will relish his only novel The Portrait Dorian Gray; all of his plays including A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of being Earnest; essays; poems and stories for both children and adults.

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About the Author

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was the son of Sir William Wilde, a noted Dublin eye specialist, and Jane Francesca, Lady Wilde, a well-known Irish poet and journalist. He was a brilliant student at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate Prize in 1878 for his poem Ravenna. He married his wife Constance in 1884 and they had two sons. Wilde's most prolific period was between 1888 and 1895. Following an ill-advised lawsuit against Lord Alfred Douglas's father, The Marquess of Queensberry, for libel, Wilde was prosecuted for homosexual acts and imprisoned for two years with hard labour in Reading Gaol. He died in a house on the Rue des Beaux Arts in Paris in 1900.

Edition details

• Publisher: Macmillan Collector's Library
• Publication date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1904633986
• ISBN 13: 9781904633983
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 576