The Major Works: Including the Picture of Dorian Gray

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’.

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 Part I
The Critic as Artist Part II

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 Judgement

Aphorisms
A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young