The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Stories, Plays, Poems, Essays

Great Britain: Collins. Very Good. 1984. Reprint. Soft Cover. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 0004356470 Paperback Paperback. Introduced by Vyvyan Holland.rollled spine some This book contains his only novel. The Picture of Dorian Gray, all his stories, pays and poems, and a substantial number of his essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts. The Importance of Being Ernest, for example, is given in the original four-act version, with readings with the revised edition, while De Profundis, his moving and tragic letter to Lord Alfred Douglas, is from the manuscript held by the British Museum until 1960 - the only complete and accurate source. Collin's Complete Works of Oscar Wilde was the first one-volume edition to include 'The Portrait of Mr. W. H.' in which Wilde expanded his theory concerning the mystery of Shakespeare's Sonnets, and also 'A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated', a series of aphorisms typical of Wilde. It carries, too, an Introduction specially written by Vyvyan Holland, Oscar Wilde's son. 1216 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) .