Author:Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde

Oscar Wilde
(1854–1900)

Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and author of short stories
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Oscar Wilde

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The Soul of Man Under Socialism

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  • Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde (1914) with preface by Robert Ross
    • "How They Struck a Contemporary" from "The Decay of Lying"
    • "The Quality of George Meredith" ibid.
    • "Life in the Fallacious Model" ibid.
    • "Life the Disciple" ibid.
    • "Life the Plagiarist" ibid.
    • "The Indispensable East" ibid.
    • "The Influence of the Impressionists on Climate" ibid.
    • "An Exposure to Naturalism" ibid.
    • "Thomas Griffiths Wainewright" from "Pen, Pencil and Poison"
    • "Wainewright at Hobart Town" ibid.
    • "Cardinal Newman and the Autobiographers" from "The Critic as Artist"
    • "Robert Browning" ibid.
    • "The Two Supreme and Highest Arts" ibid.
    • "The Secrets of Immortality" ibid.
    • "The Critic and his Material" ibid.
    • "Dante the Living Guide" ibid.
    • "The Limitations of Genius" ibid.
    • "Wanted A New Background" ibid.
    • "Without Frontiers" ibid.
    • "The Poetry of Archæology" from "The Truth of Masks"
    • "The Art of Archæology" ibid.
    • "Herod Suppliant" from Salomé
    • "The Tetrarch’s Remorse" ibid.
    • "The Tetrarch’s Treasure" ibid.
    • "Salomé anticipates Dr. Strauss" ibid.
    • "The Young King" from "The Young King" (short story)
    • "A Coronation" ibid.
    • "The King of Spain" from "The Birthday of the Infanta"
    • "A Bull Fight" ibid.
    • "The Throne Room" ibid.
    • "A Protected Country" from "The Fisherman and His Soul"
    • "The Blackmailing of the Emperor" ibid.
    • "Covent Garden" from "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime"
    • "A Letter from Miss Jane Percy to her Aunt" ibid.
    • "The Triumph of American 'Humor'" from "The Canterville Ghost"
    • "The Garden of Death" ibid.
    • "An Eton Kit-cat" from The Portrait of Mr W. H.
    • "Mrs. Erlynne Exercises the Prerogative of a Grandmother" from Lady Windermere's Fan
    • "Motherhood more than Marriage" from A Woman of No Importance
    • "The Damnable Ideal" from An Ideal Husband
    • "From a Rejected Prize-essay" from "The Rise of Historical Criticism"
    • "The Possibilities of the Useful" from "The English Renaissance of Art"
    • "The Artist" from "Poems in Prose"
    • "The Doer of Good" ibid.
    • "The Disciple" ibid.
    • "The Master" ibid.
    • "The House of Judgment" ibid.
    • "The Teacher of Wisdom" ibid.
    • "Wilde gives directions about 'De Profundis'" Letter from Reading Prison to Robert Ross
    • "Carey Street" from De Profundis
    • "Sorrow wears no mask" ibid.
    • "Vita Nuova" ibid.
    • "The Grand Romantic" ibid.
    • "Clapham Junction" ibid.
    • "The Broken Resolution" ibid.
    • "Domesticity at Berneval" Letter to Robert Ross
    • "A visit to the Pope" Letter to Robert Ross
  • Complete Writings (transcription volumes: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)

Anonymous works attributed to Wilde

Works about Wilde

Some or all works by this author were published before January 1, 1930, and are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.

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