The Oscar Wilde Page

( 1854-1900 )

Major Works
The Portable Oscar Wilde ( Viking, 1981 ) is a handy collection of some representative major works.
Vera; or, The Nihilists ( 1881 ).
The Happy Prince and Other Tales ( 1888 ). These stories are among the greatest Victorian fairy tales.
The Decay of Lying ( 1889 ).
The Soul of Man Under Socialism ( 1891 ).
The Critic as Artist ( 1891 ).
The Picture of Dorian Gray ( 1891 ). On Line
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories ( 1891 ).
Wilde's complete short fiction, including Happy Prince, On Line from Bibliomania.
Lady Windermere's Fan ( 1893 ).
Salomé ( 1894 ). Translated from Wilde's French by 'Bosie' Douglas. It deserves another try.
A Woman of No Importance ( 1894 ).
The Ballad of Reading Gaol ( 1898 ). On Line from The Poet's Corner.
An Ideal Husband ( 1899 ).
The Importance of Being Earnest ( 1899 ).
De Profundis ( 1905 ). This work saw the light of day in stages and is available, in its definitive text, in The Portable Oscar Wilde (see above) and in the Collected Letters (see next). It may be taken as Wilde's voice from beyond the grave .
The Letters of Oscar Wilde. Edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. Harcourt, 1962. Hart-Davis also edited Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde. Oxford, 1979.
More Letters of Oscar Wilde. Edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. Vanguard, 1985.
Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Stories, Plays, Poems and Essays. Edited by Vyvyan Holland. HarperCollins, 1989. Holland was Wilde's son, one of two.

About Wilde
Richard Ellmann, Oscar Wilde. Knopf, 1988. Superlative, of course.
Oscariana. Concentrates on Wilde's life after his conviction for sodomy .
Oscar Wilde from The Victorian Web.
Wilde Criticism from Internet Public Library.

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