“Every crease is a story.”

Author
1854–1900
An Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete.
Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories, and one novel. Known for his biting wit, and a plentitude of aphorisms, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest.
As the result of a widely covered series of trials, Wilde suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned for two years hard labour after being convicted of "gross indecency" with other men. After Wilde was released from prison he set sail for Dieppe by the night ferry. He never returned to Ireland or Britain, and died in poverty.
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde, 1890

The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde, 1893

Salome, a Play.
Oscar Wilde, 1893

The Happy Prince and other tales
Oscar Wilde, 1888

Poems
Oscar Wilde, 1881

The Canterville Ghost
Oscar Wilde, 1887

The Selfish Giant
Oscar Wilde, 1932

A Woman of No Importance
Oscar Wilde, 1893

The plays of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde, 1905

Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
Oscar Wilde

De profundis
Oscar Wilde, 1905

The Book of fantasy
Jorge Luis Borges, Silvina Ocampo & others, 1940

Great Short Stories of the World
Isak Dinesen, Sholem Aleichem & others, 1972

An Ideal Husband
Oscar Wilde, 1899

The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Oscar Wilde, 1891

Teleny
Anonymous & Oscar Wilde, 1958

Lady Windermere's Fan
Oscar Wilde, 1890

A House of Pomegranates
Oscar Wilde, 1891

The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Oscar Wilde, 1896

Short stories
Oscar Wilde, 1910

Intentions
Oscar Wilde, 1891

The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
Oscar Wilde

The picture of Dorian Gray, and selected stories
Oscar Wilde, Gary Schmidgall & others, 1962

The Nightingale and the Rose
Oscar Wilde

Prentice Hall Literature
Kevin Feldman, Margaret Atwood & others

El retrato de Dorian Gray
Oscar Wilde, Julio Gomez de la Serna & others
The Happy Prince
Oscar Wilde, 1968

Tales of Horror and Mystery
Roald Dahl, Walter De la Mare & others

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Stories
Oscar Wilde

Great Humorous Stories
P. G. Wodehouse, Ring Lardner & others

Poetry
Oscar Wilde

The complete letters of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde

The Norton Anthology of English Literature -- Seventh Edition -- Volume 2B --The Victorian Age
Carol T. Christ, Thomas Carlyle & others

El fantasma de Canterville
Oscar Wilde

Children’s Stories
Oscar Wilde

Lady Windermeres Fan
Oscar Wilde

La Importancia de Llamarse Ernesto
Oscar Wilde

The Decay of Lying
Oscar Wilde, 1900

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Oscar Wilde, 1948

The wit & wisdom of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde, 1960

The Star Child
Oscar Wilde, 1979

Essays of the Masters
W. H. Auden, Honoré de Balzac & others, 1956
El Gigante Egoista
Oscar Wilde

Oxford Bookworms Playscripts: The Importance of Being Earnest: Level 2: 700-Word Vocabulary (Oxford Bookworms Playscripts Level 2)
Oscar Wilde

Charles Keeping's Book of Classic Ghost Stories
Charles Keeping, Robert Louis Stevenson & others

The secret life of Laszlo, Count Dracula
Roderick Anscombe, Arthur Conan Doyle & others

The Model Millionaire
Oscar Wilde
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