COMPLETE WORKS OF OSCAR WILDE, THE

It is a stunning irony that Oscar Wilde, the celebrated and controversial author who rocketed to fame in the 1880s as a dazzling humorist and wordsmith extraordinaire, should have died penniless and alone in a Paris hotel in 1900. Today acclaimed asone the greatest writers of the fin de siècle, Wilde packed an astonishing amount of work and genius into two short decades, producing masterpieces in every genre—from poems and short stories to plays, novels, and essays. This book includes the complete text of The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as The Ballad of Reading Gaol, De Profundis, The Importance of Being Earnest, more.