Oscar Wilde

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    92 Books
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    June 1970
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    December 2015
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Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 – 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death.

At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890).

At the height of his fame and success, Wilde was arrested for "gross indecency." He was convicted and imprisoned for two years' hard labour. Upon his release he went to France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six.

Book List in Order: 92 titles

  • The Canterville Ghost

    Britain's most popular nineteenth century playwright Oscar Wilde was born in Ireland in 1854. He dabbled in several different forms of writing, as is exemplified in his best known work, the novel entitled "The Picture of Dorian Gray." He ...

  • The Portable Oscar Wilde

    Includes the following works: Novels -- The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays -- Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings -- De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from L...

  • The Nightingale and the Rose

    A nightingale selflessly sacrifices herself to help a young student win the love of his professor’s daughter, but both the professor’s daughter and the young student prove unworthy of her sacrifice.Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a ...

  • Fourteen Stories

  • Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

    The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde’s works.Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognised as the most com...

  • Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

  • Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: Vol. 2 - The Young Kid/The Remarkable Rocket: Signed Edition

    Award-winning illustrator P. Craig Russell's adaptations of Oscar Wilde's The Remarkable Rocket and The Young King, in a signed and limited edition, are exquisitely spun tales for adults and children alike....

  • The Happy Prince

    THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER STORIES
    Shimmering tales of imaginative brilliance
    Oscar Wilde, writer of genius and flamboyant exponent of the Aesthetic Movement, was born in Dublin in 1854. Famous for his sharp wit and shrewd social observation,...

  • The Decay of Lying



  • The Portrait of Mr. W.H.

    Oscar Wilde was a prominent Irish playwright and novelist in the late 19th century.  With classics such as The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde remains one of the most widely read authors today.  This editio...

  • Wilde Anthology

  • The Book of Irish Weirdness

    Travel back to the old country and be bewitched by these tales of strange phenomenon and ghostly, bizarre happenings on the Emerald Isle. Witty, odd and always entertaining, this last testament to the wonderful talent of author and editor - and Balli...

  • The Fisherman and His Soul and Other Fairy Tales

    Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short sto...

  • Complete Shorter Fiction

    Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer and poet who distinguished himself as a leader of London's school of Aesthetics in the late nineteenth century. He became famous for his long hair, flamboyant dress, green carnations and colorful, bitin...

  • The Birthday of the Infanta

    Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short sto...

  • The Star-Child

    Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short sto...

  • An Ideal Husband

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com. The octagon room at Sir Robert Chiltern's house in Grosvenor Square....

  • The Collected Poems of Oscar Wilde

    Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure. The poetry of his formative years includes the haunting elegy to his young sister and the gri...

  • Epigrams of Oscar Wilde

    "There is only one thing in the world worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about", said Oscar Wilde more than a hundred years ago. But this remark seems perhaps even more relevant to our present world where so many seek publici...



  • Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

    The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde’s works, and is available in both hardback and this paperback edition.

    Continuously in print since 1948, the Colli...

  • Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Selfish Giant and the Star Child

  • Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

    One of comic art’s most respected and pioneering artists, well known for his opera adaptations and beautiful fantasy work, P. Craig Russell is in the process of adapting Oscar Wilde’s famous fairy tales in a series of landmark volumes. This volum...

  • Stories for Young People

    A uniquely personal collection of Oscar Wilde's stories, introduced by his very own grandson. Each tale is filled with wonder and joy.

    "Why, anyone can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination."
    --From "The Remarkable Roc...

  • The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde

    This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective yarns and comedies of manners. It includes the complete texts of "The H...

  • Oscar Wilde Stories for Children

    Oscar Wilde's stories are much-loved classics and make a fantastic story collection. They are timeless. moving and very readable. Complemented by atmospheric and evocative artwork from a leading illustrator.



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  • Three Plays for Children: The Devoted Friend/The Happy Prince/The Selfish Giant

    Three of Wilde’s short stories adapted into enchanting plays for young children The Selfish Giant chases away spring and summer, leaving the garden in a permanent winter. Only when the giant realises his selfishness and opens his garden to the l...

  • The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

    "The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde" is as the title would suggest a collection of whimiscal tales by Oscar Wilde. This collections includes the following short stories: The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose, The Selfish Giant, ...

  • The Devoted Friend

    A selfish miller proves to be the downfall of his devoted friend and gardener, Hans, even as he benefits from the fruits of Hans’s labour.Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a playwright and prose author. Among his most famous works are T...

  • The Remarkable Rocket

    Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short sto...



  • The Sphinx without a Secret

    In love with a mysterious woman, Lord Murchison one day follows her in order to learn her secrets. But when, after the lady’s death, her secret is revealed, Murchison is left to ponder its meaning.Victorian author Oscar Wilde is known both as a pla...

  • The Collected Supernatural & Weird Fiction Of Oscar Wilde-Includes The Novel 'The Picture Of Dorian Gray,' 'Lord Arthur Savile's

    Weird tales from a master of drama and the written word

    Oscar Wilde genius as a playwright, author and poet is well known and highly regarded. The quality of his work has ensured that it has often been adapted for the cinema screen and the fir...

  • Oscar Wilde

    This file includes the novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray" plus "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories".The "other" stories are: The Canterville Ghost, The Sphinx Without a Secret, The ModelMillionaire, and The Portrait of Mr. W. H. According t...

  • Oscar Wilde's Stories for All Ages

    One of the world’s best loved presenters meets one of the world’s greatest authors in this beautiful selection of timeless, haunting stories. Vividly brought to life through abundant illustrations and Stephen’s masterly introductions, Oscar Wil...

  • Blood, Sperm, Black Velvet

    The Decadent movement in literature, which flourished from the 1880s until the turn of the century, drew its inspiration equally from gothic novels, Baudelaire and the morbid funeraries of Poe, the psychotropic ravages of alcohol and exotic drugs, an...

  • A Woman Of No Importance

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.Lawn in front of the terrace at Hunstanton....

  • Vera

    Book Excerpt: ...and twice as dangerous; besides, she is well disguised. But is there any news from the Palace to-night, President? What is that bloody[4] despot doing now besides torturing his only son? Have any of you seen him? One hears strang...

  • Nothing-- Except My Genius

    'I have nothing to declare,' Wilde once told an American customs official, 'except my genius.' A socialite, a wit, a man who flaunted convention and was unafraid to shock, Oscar Wilde was a great writer and a great man. This new collection of wit and...

  • Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

    Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde contains the following seventeen poems The Ballad Of Reading Gaol, Ave Imperatrix, To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems, Magdalen Walks, Theocritus - A Villanelle, Greece, Portia, Fabien Dei Franchi, Phedre, Sonnet On He...

  • Intentions

    Contents: The Decay of Lying Pen, Pencil And Poison The Critic As Artist The Truth of Masks...



  • The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

    "I have put my genius into my life," declared Oscar Wilde, adding, "I have put only my talent into my works." This gift edition of the renowned poet and playwright's aphorisms draws upon both realms. Hundreds of sparkling jests and epigrams include q...

  • Comedies

    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer, poet, and prominent aesthete. This volume contains four of Wilde's comedic plays: The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windmere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importan...

  • The Poems and Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was a celebrated author, poet and aesthete. Two of his most acclaimed works are his play The Importance of Being Earnest, and his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Wilde was convicted and imprison...

  • The Plays of Oscar Wilde

    HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics.‘London society is full of women of the very highest birth who have, of their own free choice, remained thirty-five for years.’Including some of Oscar Wilde’s mos...

  • The Uncensored Picture of Dorian Gray

    More than 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication in Lippincott’s Monthly Magazine, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition. This volume restores all of the...

  • The Critic as an Artist with Some Remarks Upon the Importance of Doing Nothing

    ERNEST. Well, while you have been playing, I have been turning over the pages with some amusement, though, as a rule, I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anyt...

  • For Love of the King

    Oscar Wilde was a prominent Irish playwright and novelist in the late 19th century.  With classics such as The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray, Wilde remains one of the most widely read authors today.  This editio...

  • Pen, Pencil and Poison a Study in Green

    It has constantly been made a subject of reproach against artists and men of letters that they are lacking in wholeness and completeness of nature. As a rule this must necessarily be so. That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose whic...

  • The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Literary Criticism

    Oscar Wilde’s infamous wit, taste for scandal, and gift for revealing the hypocrisies of fashionable society are on display here in this collection of his finest plays. A genius both of and ahead of his time, he built his craft on the eternal quest...

  • The Truth on Masks a Not on Illusion

    In many of the somewhat violent attacks that have recently been made on that splendour of mounting which now characterises our Shakespearian revivals in England, it seems to have been tacitly assumed by the critics that Shakespeare himself was more o...



  • An Ideal Husband Companion

    Blackmail, political corruption, drama! Sounds like a great comedic premise. So why aren't you laughing? Maybe because An Ideal Husband was written over 100 years ago. Despite being one of Oscar Wilde's greatest works, some of the ideas and concepts ...

  • Impressions Of America

    IMPRESSIONS.I.LE JARDIN. The lily’s withered chalice falls Around its rod of dusty gold, And from the beech trees on the wold The last wood-pigeon coos and calls. The gaudy leonine sunflower Hangs black and barren on it...

  • Essays and Lectures

    Dodo Collections brings you another classic from Oscar Wilde, ‘Essays and Lectures’.It is a collection of essays, lectures, reviews, letters, and aphorisms by Oscar Wilde.Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 " 30 November 1900)...

  • Reviews

    Reviews is presented here in a high quality paperback edition. This popular classic work by Oscar Wilde is in the English language, and may not include graphics or images from the original edition. If you enjoy the works of Oscar Wilde then we highly...

  • The Fisherman and His Soul

    "The Fisherman and his Soul" is a short story written by Oscar Wilde. Dedicated to H.S.H. Alice, the Princess of Monaco In The Fisherman and his Soul, a young Fisherman finds a Mermaid and wants nothing more than to marry her, but he cannot, for one ...

  • The Fisherman & His Soul, the Star-Child, and Other Stories

    These stories, first told by Oscar Wilde at dinner parties, were originally published in two volumes titled Stories for Children. When asked directly if such intricate stories in the second volume as “The Fisherman and His Soul” were intended for...

  • The Duchess of Padua

    Another classic converted by eBooksLib.com.The Market Place of Padua at noon; in the background is the great Cathedral of Padua; the architecture is Romanesque, and wrought in black and white marbles; a flight of marble steps leads up to the Cathedra...

  • Salome

  • The Burden of Itys

    Rabindranath Tagore, also written Rabindranatha Thakura, (7 May 1861 - 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20t...

  • The Garden of Eros

    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 " 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is rememb...

  • Humanitad

    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 " 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is rememb...

  • Ravenna

    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 " 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is rememb...

  • The Teacher of Wisdom

    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 " 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is rememb...

  • A Critic in Pall Mall

  • Four Stories

  • Miscellaneous Aphorisms

  • Poems

  • The Truth of Masks

    n many of the somewhat violent attacks that have recently been made on that splendour of mounting which now characterises our Shakespearian revivals in England, it seems to have been tacitly assumed by the critics that Shakespeare himself was more or...

  • A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane

    The contents of this volume require some explanation of an historical nature. It is scarcely realised by the present generation that Wilde’s works on their first appearance, with the exception of De Profundis, were met with almost general condemnat...

  • Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life

    This collection of literature attempts to compile many of the classic works that have stood the test of time and offer them at a reduced, affordable price, in an attractive volume so that everyone can enjoy them....

  • The Ballad of Reading Gaol

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    This is a fully illustrated edition of Oscar Wilde's classic poetic account of his imprisonment following his sensational trial for homosexual offences. The poetry is rich in human sympathy and infused with the author's suffering....

  • Charmides and Other Stories

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    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remember...

  • Complete Works

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  • Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde, Volume 2

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  • Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Volume 5

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  • De Profundis

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    A definitive new collection of Oscar Wilde’s best prison letters and poetry, with an introduction by Colm Toibin Bankrupt and with his reputation in ruins, Oscar Wilde wrote the astonishing letter “De Profundis” to his lover, Lord Alfred Dou...

  • A House of Pomegranates

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    A House of Pomegranates was written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1892. A House of Pomegranates is a collection of whimisical short stories which includes the following tales: The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and his...

  • Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Prose Pieces

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  • Miscellanies

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    Yet though we cannot care much for the dead man who lies in lonely state beneath it, and who is only known to the world through his sepulchre, still this pyramid will be ever dear to the eyes of all English-speaking people, because at evening its sha...

  • The Model Millionaire

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    Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short sto...

  • Novels And Fairy Tales Of Oscar Wilde

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  • Pen, Pencil And Poison

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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • Selected Poems

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  • Selected Prose Of Oscar Wilde

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  • Short Works

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  • Shorter Prose Pieces

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    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...

  • The Soul of Man Under Socialism

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    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available a...

  • The Importance of Being Earnest

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    Skyros Publishing is dedicated to reproducing the finest books ever written and letting readers of all ages experience a classic for the first time or revisit a past favorite. The Importance of Being Earnest is a classic play written by Oscar Wilde.T...

  • Lady Windermere's Fan

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    New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:

    The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
    Textual notes recording signi...

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray

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    A narcissistic young man falls under the influence of a hedonist who declares that beauty and sensual fulfillment are all that matters. To ensure the endurance of his youthful good looks, Dorian Gray strikes a Faustian bargain in which his appearance...

  • Selfish Giant

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    The classic Oscar Wilde story of the selfish giant who won't let anyone into his garden - until his heart is softened by one very special little boy, illustrated with great drama. The Bloomsbury Children's Classics Series: The Brave Sister, retold by...

  • Teleny; Or, The Reverse Of The Medal

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  • The Young King

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    Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short sto...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Oscar Wilde has published 92 books.

Oscar Wilde does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life, was published in December 2015.

The first book by Oscar Wilde, The Canterville Ghost, was published in June 1970.

No. Oscar Wilde does not write books in series.
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