Oscar Wilde

  • Oscar Wilde: A Life
    By Matthew Sturgis

    Wilde's development as a playwright. . . becoming the high priest of the aesthetic movement; his successes . . . his celebrity. . . and in later years, his irresistible pull toward another—double—life, in flagrant defiance and disregard ...

  • Oscar Wilde: A Life in Letters
    By Oscar Wilde

    Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, yet it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost, his...

  • Oscar Wilde
    By Edouard Roditi

    Analyzes the poetry, novels, and plays of this 19th century writer and reveals his influence on modern literature.

  • Oscar Wilde: A Life
    By Matthew Sturgis

    "The first full biography of Oscar Wilde in more than thirty years"--

  • Oscar Wilde
    By Philippe Jullian

    Oscar Wilde

  • Oscar Wilde
    By Karl Beckson

    Oscar Wilde (1854-1900). British dramatist whose works and wit often attracted scandalized protest. Writings include: The Happy Prince, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest.

  • Oscar Wilde: Recent Research : a Supplement to "Oscar Wilde Revalued"
    By Ian Small

    This study of Oscar Wilde updates and reconceptualizes the bibliographic objectives of Oscar Wilde Revalued, and surveys research on Wilde from 1992-2000 in a more explicitly evaluative manner.

  • Oscar Wilde: Recollections
    By Charles S. Ricketts

    Describes the author's relationship with Oscar Wilde and the people he associated with through an imaginary conversation with a fictional writer.

  • Oscar Wilde
    By Peter Raby

    Certainly a violet sky and then , in place of an orchestra , braziers of perfume . Think the scented clouds rising and partly veiling the stage from time to time a new perfume for each new emotion ! '32 However , when Sarah Bernhardt ...

  • Oscar Wilde: The Works of a Conformist Rebel
    By Norbert Kohl

    Professor Kohl's aim is to gain fresh insight into his literary and critical œuvre of Oscar Wilde.

  • Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism
    By E.H. Mikhail

    Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism

  • Oscar Wilde: A Certain Genius
    By Barbara Belford

    In this elegant and affectionate biography of one of the most controversial personalities of the nineteenth century, Barbara Belford breaks new ground in the evocation of Oscar Wilde's personal life...

  • Oscar Wilde: A Life
    By Matthew Sturgis

    'Some said my life was a lie but I always knew it to be the truth; for like the truth it was rarely pure and never simple' Oscar Wilde, 3 days before his death Oscar Wilde was one of the great personalities of his age.

  • Oscar Wilde: 'The Importance of Being Earnest'
    By Oscar Wilde

    The series includes novels, drama, short stories, poetry, essays and other types of non-fiction. Each edition has the complete text with an appropriate glossary.

  • Oscar Wilde: Interviews and Recollections Volume I
    By E.H. Mikhail

    On Wilde's American lecture tour see Richard Butler Glaenzer (ed.), Decorative Art in America (New York: Brentano's, 1906); Lloyd Lewis and Henry Justin Smith, Oscar Wilde Discovers America (New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1936); Philippe ...

  • Oscar Wilde
    By Harold Bloom

    Collects eight essays that provide critical analyses of the writings of Oscar Wilde, and includes an introduction by Harold Bloom as well as a chronology.

  • Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism
    By E.H. Mikhail

    Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Bibliography of Criticism

  • Oscar Wilde: Quotes and Facts
    By Blago Kirov

    This book is an anthology of 230 brilliant quotes and aphorisms from Oscar Wilde and selected from Blago Kirov facts about Oscar Wilde.

  • Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years
    By Nicholas Frankel

    McKenna, The Secret Life of Oscar Wilde (New York: Basic Books, 2005), 434. 83. ... Librairie de l'Art Indépendent, 1893), quoted in Nicholas Frankel, Oscar Wilde's Decorated Books (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2000), 60.

  • Oscar Wilde: Selected Poems
    By Oscar Wilde, Robert Mighall

    Presents more than thirty-five of the prolific poet's works, including "Ravenna," "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," and "Le Jardin."