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Born in October 16, 1854 / Died in November 30, 1900 / Ireland / English

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POETRY

  • Newdigate Prize Poem: Ravenna, Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878, T. Shrimpton & Son (Oxford, England), 1878.
  • Poems (includes "Helas," "E Tenebris," "Panthea,"and "Impressions"), Roberts Brothers (Boston, MA), 1881.
  • The Sphinx, illustrations by Charles Ricketts, Copeland & Day (Boston, MA), 1894.
  • (Early editions under pseudonym C.3.3., Wilde's prison number) The Ballad of Reading Gaol, L. Smithers (London, England), 1896, reprinted, Woodstock Books (New York, NY), 1995, with wood engravings by Garrick Palmer, Trafalger Square (North Pomfret, VT), 1998.
  • The Harlot's House (first published in The Dramatic Review, April 11, 1885), illustrations by Althea Gyles, Mathurin Press/ L. Smithers (London, England), 1904.
  • Poems in Prose (first published in Fortnightly Review,July, 1894; contains "The Artist," "The Doer of Good," "The Disciple," "The Master," "The House of Judgment," and "The Teacher of Wisdom"), privately printed, 1905, revised edition published as Prose Poems, illustrations by Margaret McCord, Crannog Press (Belfast, Ireland), 1973.
  • Pan, a Double Villanelle, and Desespoir, a Sonnet, J. W. Luce & Co. (Boston, MA), 1909.
  • Remorse: A Study in Saffron, notes by Majl Ewing, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (Los Angeles, CA), 1961.
  • Serenade, illustrations by Rigby Graham, privately printed, 1962.
  • Some Early Poems and Fragments, privately printed, 1974.

PLAYS

  • Vera; or, The Nihilists (first produced in New York, NY, at Union Square Theatre, August 20, 1883), privately printed, 1880, Classic Books (New York, NY), 2000.
  • Guido Ferranti: A Tragedy of the XVI Century, first produced in New York, NY, at Broadway Theatre, January 26, 1891.
  • Lady Windermere's Fan (first produced in London, England, at St. James's Theater, February 20, 1893), Matthews & Lane, Bodley Head (London, England), 1893.
  • A Woman of No Importance (first produced in London, England, at Haymarket Theatre, April 19, 1893), Lane, Bodley Head (London, England), 1894.
  • An Ideal Husband (first produced in London, England at Haymarket Theatre, January 3, 1895), Smithers (London, England), 1899, Dover (Mineola, NY), 2001.
  • The Importance of Being Earnest (first produced in London, England, at St. James's Theatre, February 14, 1895), Smithers (London, England), 1899, Dover (Mineola, NY), 1991.
  • Salomé (first produced in London, England, at Bijou Theatre, May 10, 1905), first published in French as Salomé: drame en un act, Librarie de l'Art Independent (Paris, France), 1893, English translation by Alfred Douglas published as Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act, Copeland & Day (Boston, MA), 1894, reprinted, Dover (Mineola, NY), 1967.
  • A Florentine Tragedy (first produced in London, England, at King's Hall, June 10, 1906), opening scene by T. Sturge Moore, Luce (Boston, MA), 1908.
  • For Love of the King: A Burmese Masque, Methuen (London, England), 1922.

FICTION

  • The Happy Prince and Other Tales, Roberts (Boston, MA), 1888, Everyman's Library (New York, NY), 1995.
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (novel), Ward, Lock (New York, NY), 1891, reprinted, Modern Library (New York, NY), 1998.
  • Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, Dodd, Mead (New York, NY), 1891, reprinted, Travelman Publishing (London, England), 2000.
  • A House of Pomegranates, Osgood, McIlvain (London, England), 1891, Dodd, Mead (New York, NY), 1892, reprinted, Blue Unicorn Editions (Kensington, CA), 1998.
  • The Portrait of Mr. W. H., Mosher (Portland, ME), 1901, edited version by Vyvyan Holland, Methuen (London, England), 1948.
  • The Devoted Friend, Mage (Washington, DC), 1987.
  • The Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, illustrated by Isabelle Brent, Holt (New York, NY), 1993.
  • The Fisherman and His Soul and Other Fairy Tales, 1888, St. Martin's (New York, NY), 1998.
  • The Canterville Ghost and Other Stories, Dover (Mineola, NY), 2001.

NONFICTION; SINGLE VOLUMES

  • Intentions (critical essays), Dodd, Mead (New York, NY), 1891, reprinted, Classic Books (New York, NY), 2002.
  • The Soul of Man, privately printed, 1895, published as The Soul of Man under Socialism, 1904, reprinted, Charles H. Kerr Publishing Company (Chicago, IL), 1990.
  • De Profundis, Putnam (New York, NY), 1905, published with The Ballad of Reading Gaol, notes by Rupert Hart-Davis, additional material by W. H. Auden, Avon Books (New York, NY), 1964, preface by Richard Ellman, Modern Library Classics (New York, NY), 2000.
  • Impressions of America, edited by Stuart Mason, Keystone Press (Sunderland, England), 1906.
  • Decorative Art in America: A Lecture Together with Letters, Reviews, and Interviews, edited by R. B. Glaenzer, Brentano's (New York, NY), 1906.
  • The Suppressed Portion of "De Profundis," Reynolds (New York, NY), 1913.
  • A Critic in Pall Mall, Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies, Methuen (London, England), 1919.

NONFICTION; OMNIBUS VOLUMES

  • Oscariana: Epigrams (excerpts), compiled by wife, Constance Mary Lloyd Wilde, privately printed, 1895, revised and enlarged edition, Arthur L. Humphreys (London, England), 1912.
  • Essays, Criticisms, and Reviews (collection of editorials first published in Woman's World, November, 1887, to June, 1889; contains "A Fascinating Book," "A Note on Some Modern Poets," "Some Literary Notes," and "Literary and Other Notes"), privately printed, 1901.
  • Sebastian Melmoth (includes epigrams and aphorisms, excerpted, and The Soul of Man under Socialism), Arthur L. Humphreys (London, England), 1904.
  • Epigrams and Aphorisms (excerpts), introduction by George Henry Sargent, J. W. Luce & Co. (Boston, MA), 1905.
  • The Wisdom of Oscar Wilde, selected and introduced by Temple Scott, Brentano's (New York, NY), 1906.
  • Great Thoughts from Oscar Wilde, selected by Stuart Mason, Dodge Publishing Co. (New York, NY), 1912.
  • Aphorisms of Oscar Wilde (contains "On Men and Women," "On Civilisation," "On Art, On Vices, Virtues, and Emotions," and "On Everything"), selected and arranged by G. N. Sutton, Methuen (London, England), c. 1914.
  • The Essays of Oscar Wilde, Albert & Charles Boni (New York, NY), 1935.
  • Essays, edited and introduced by Hesketh Pearson, Methuen (London, England), 1950, published as The Soul of Man under Socialism and Other Essays, introduction by Philip Rieff, Harper (New York, NY), 1970.
  • Epigrams: An Anthology, compiled by Alvin Redman, introduction by Vyvyan Hollad, A. Redman (London, England), 1952, Day (New York, NY), 1954, published as The Wit and Humor of Oscar Wilde, Dover (Mineola, NY), 1959.
  • Wit and Wisdom, compiled by Cecil Hewetson, Duckworth (London, England), 1960, published as Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde, Philosophical Library (New York, NY), 1967.
  • Literary Criticism of Oscar Wilde, edited by Stanley Weintraub, University of Nebraska Press (Lincoln, NE), 1968.
  • The Artist as Critic: Critical Writings of Oscar Wilde, edited by Richard Ellmann, Random House (New York, NY), 1969.
  • The Wit of Oscar Wilde, compiled by Sean McCann, Frewin (London, England), 1969.
  • Witticisms of Oscar Wilde, compiled by Derek Stanford, John Baker (London, England), 1971.
  • Wilde Things: The Delicious and Malicious Epigrams of Oscar Wilde, illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, Attic Press (Greenwood, SC), 1972.
  • I Can Resist Everything except Temptation: And Other Quotations from Oscar Wilde, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 1996.

CORRESPONDENCE

  • (With James Abbott McNeill Whistler) Wilde v. Whistler: Being an Acrimonious Correspondence on Art between Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler (first published in Whistler's The Gentle Art of Making Enemies, Heinemann, 1890), privately printed, 1906.
  • Letters after Reading, P. R. Reynolds (Sydney, Australia), 1921, published as After Reading: Letters of Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross, Beaumont (London, England), 1921.
  • After Berneval: Letters of Oscar Wilde to Robert Ross, illustrations by Randolph Schwabe, Beaumont (London, England), 1922.
  • Oscar Wilde's Letters to Sarah Bernhardt, edited by Sylvestre Dorian, Haldeman-Julius, Co. (Girard, KS), 1924.
  • Some Letters from Oscar Wilde to Alfred Douglas, 1892-1897,preface by William Andrews Clark, Jr., notes by Arthur C. Dennison, Jr., and Harrison Post, additional material by A. S. W. Rosenbach, W. A. Clark/J. H. Nash (San Francisco, CA), 1924.
  • Sixteen Letters from Oscar Wilde, edited and notes by John Rothenstein, Coward-McCann (New York, NY), 1930.
  • Letters (includes first publication of full text of De Profundis), edited by Rupert Hart-Davis, Harcourt (New York, NY), 1962, published as The Letters of Oscar Wilde, Rupert Hart-Davis (London, England), 1962.
  • Selected Letters of Oscar Wilde, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1979.
  • Berneval: An Unpublished Letter, notes and introduction by Jeremy Mason, Tragara Press (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1981.
  • Oscar Wilde—Graham Hill: A Brief Friendship, notes and introduction by Jeremy Mason, Tragara Press (Edinburgh, Scotland), 1982.
  • More Letters of Oscar Wilde, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis, Vanguard Press (New York, NY), 1985.
  • Oscar Wilde on Vegetarianism: An Unpublished Letter to Violet Fane, with an introduction and notes by Jeremy Mason, Tragara Press (Edinburgh), 1991.
  • The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, edited by Merlin Holland and Rupert Hart-Davis, Henry Holt & Company (New York, NY), 2000.

GENERAL OMNIBUS VOLUMES

  • Poems by Oscar Wilde, Together with His Lecture on the English Renaissance (includes lecture first published in New York Tribune, January 10, 1882 ), privately printed, 1903.
  • The Best of Oscar Wilde: Being a Collection of the Best Poems and Prose Extracts of the Writer, collected by Oscar Herrmann, edited by W. W. Massee, illustrated by Frederick Ehrlich, Avon Press (New York, NY), 1905.
  • Fairy Tales and Poems in Prose, Boni & Liveright (New York, NY), 1918.
  • Art and Decoration: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies by Oscar Wilde, Methuen (London, England), 1920.
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, and Other Works of Oscar Wilde, introduction by Hesketh Pearson, Dutton (New York, NY), 1930, published as Plays, Prose Writings, and Poems, 1955, reprinted with revised contents and new introduction by Isobel Murray, 1975.
  • The Writings of Oscar Wilde: Poems, Short Stories, Plays, Novels, Fairy Tales, Letters, Dialogues, and Philosophy, William Wise (New York, NY), 1931.
  • Poems and Essays, illustrations by Donia Nachshen, Collins (New York, NY), 1931.
  • The Best-Known Works of Oscar Wilde, Including the Poems, Novels, Plays, Essays, Fairy Tales, and Dialogues, Blue Ribbon Books (New York, NY), 1931.
  • The Works of Oscar Wilde, illustrations by Donia Nachshen, Collins (New York, NY), 1932.
  • The Poems and Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, B. A. Cerf/D. S. Klopfer (New York, NY), 1932.
  • The Poems of Oscar Wilde (includes essay "Oscar Wilde on Poets and Poetry"), Albert & Charles Boni (New York, NY), 1935.
  • The Best-Known Works of Oscar Wilde, Including the Poems, Novels, Plays, Essays, and Fairy Tales, Halcyon House (Garden City, NY), 1940.
  • The Portable Oscar Wilde, selected and edited by Richard Aldington, Viking (New York, NY), 1946, revised edition selected and edited by Aldington and Stanley Weintraub, 1981.
  • Selected Works, with Twelve Unpublished Letters, Heinemann, 1946.
  • Works, edited and introduced by G. F. Maine, Collins (New York, NY), 1948, new edition, Collins (New York, NY), 1963.
  • Selected Essays and Poems, introduction by Hesketh Pearson, Penguin (London, England), 1954, reprinted as De Profundis and Other Writings, 1973.
  • Poems and Essays, introduction by Kingsley Amis, Collins (New York, NY), 1956.
  • Oscar Wilde: Selections from the Works, edited and introduced by Graham Hough, Dell (New York, NY), 1960.
  • Selected Writings, introduction by Richard Ellmann, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1961.
  • Intentions and Other Writings, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1961.
  • Works, introduction by John Gilhert, Spring Books (London, England), 1963, reprinted as The Works of Oscar Wilde, 1977.
  • Selected Writings of Oscar Wilde, edited and introduced by Russell Fraser, Houghton (Boston, MA), 1969.
  • Poems in Prose and the Preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray, Mason Hill Press (Pownal, VT), 1974.
  • The Illustrated Oscar Wilde, edited and introduced by Roy Gasson, Jupiter (London, England), 1977.
  • The Annotated Oscar Wilde: Poems, Fictions, Plays, Lectures, Essays, and Letters, edited, with introduction and notes, by H. Montgomery Hyde, C. N. Potter (New York, NY), 1982, published as The Annotated Oscar Wilde, Orbis (London, England), 1982.
  • The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings, edited and introduced by Richard Ellmann, Bantam (New York, NY), 1982.
  • The Fireworks of Oscar Wilde, edited by Owen Dudley Edwards, Barrie & Jenkins (London, England), 1989.
  • Aristotle at Afternoon Tea: The Rare Oscar Wilde, edited by John Wyse Jackson, Fourth Estate (London, England), 1991.
  • The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems, Dover (Mineola, NY), 1992.
  • Lady Bracknell's Confinement; or, The Bunburyist: A Monologue, S. French (New York, NY), 1994.
  • Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest": A Reconstructive Critical Edition of the Texts of the First Production, St. James's Theatre, 1895, edited with introductory essays by Joseph Donohue and Ruth Berggren, Colin Smyth (Gerrards Cross, England), 1995.
  • Wilde Anthology, Collins Publishers (San Francisco, CA), 1998.
  • The Best of Oscar Wilde, edited by Robert Pearce, Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd. (London, England), 1997.
  • Oscar Wilde: The Major Works, edited by Isobel Murray, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2000.

COMPLETE WORKS

  • The Writings of Oscar Wilde, 15 volumes, A. R. Keller (London, England), 1907.
  • Works, 15 volumes, edited by Robert Ross, Methuen (London, England), 1909, volumes I through XIV, published by J. W. Luce (Boston, MA), 1910, reprinted in fifteen volumes as The First Collected Edition of the Works of Oscar Wilde, 1908-1922, Barnes & Noble (New York, NY), 1969.
  • Second Collected Edition of the Works of Oscar Wilde, fourteen volumes, edited by Robert Ross, illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley, John Lane (New York, NY), 1912.
  • The Works of Oscar Wilde, fifteen volumes, introduction by Richard Le Gallienne, Lamb (New York, NY), 1909, reprinted as The Sunflower Edition of the Works of Oscar Wilde, AMS Press (New York, NY), 1972, published as The Works of Oscar Wilde, new introduction by Stanley Weintraub, 1980.
  • Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, ten volumes, edited by Robert Ross, Bigelow, Brown & Co. (St. Paul, MN), 1921.
  • The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, twelve volumes, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1923.
  • The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, edited by Vyvyan Holland, Collins (London, England), 1948, new edition, 1966.
  • Essays of Oscar Wilde, edited by Hesketh Pearson, Methuen (London, England), 1950.
  • Oscar Wilde: Complete Shorter Fiction, edited by Isobel Murray, Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), 1979.
  • Oscar Wilde, Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), 1989.
  • Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde, Penguin (New York, NY), 1990.
  • Complete Illustrated Stories, Plays, and Poems of Oscar Wilde, Sterling (New York, NY), 1991.
  • Oscar Wilde: Plays, Prose Writings, and Poems, introduction by Terry Eagleton, David Campbell (London, England), 1991.
  • Complete Short Fiction, edited by Ian Small, Penguin (New York, NY), 1994.
  • Complete Poetry, edited by Isobel Murray, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1997.
  • Complete Shorter Fiction of Oscar Wilde, edited by Isobel Murray, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 1998.
  • Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, HarperCollins (New York, NY), 1999.
  • The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, general editors Russell Jackson and Ian Small, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2000.

OTHER

  • The Trial of Oscar Wilde from the Shorthand Reports (court transcripts), preface by Charles Grolleau, Charles Carrington (Paris, France), 1906.
  • Oscar Wilde: Three Times Tried (court transcripts), Ferrestone Press (London, England), 1912.
  • The Trials of Oscar Wilde: Regina (Wilde) v. Queensberry, Regina v. Wilde and Taylor (court transcripts), edited and introduced by H. Montgomery Hyde, foreword by Travers Humphreys, W. Hodge (London, England), 1948, published as The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, University Books (New York, NY), 1956, new and enlarged 2nd edition published as Famous Trials, Seventh Series: Oscar Wilde, Penguin (London, England), 1963, 2nd edition published with material added from 1st edition as The Trials of Oscar Wilde, Dover (Mineola, NY), 1973.
  • Oscar Wilde's Oxford Notebooks: A Portrait of Mind in the Making, Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), 1989.
  • The Decay of Lying, preface by Hugh Haughton, Syrens (New York, NY), 1995.
  • Oscar Wilde's Guide to Modern Living, edited by John Calvin Batchelor and Craig McNeer, Doubleday (New York, NY), 1996.
  • The Importance of Being a Wit: The Insults of Oscar Wilde, compiled by Maria Leach, Carroll & Graf (New York, NY), 1997.

Also author of lectures "Art and the Handicraftsman" and "Lecture to Art Students." Translator into English, sometimes under pseudonym Sebastian Melmoth, of such works as What Never Dies, by Barbey d'Aurevilly. Contributor of articles, essays, reviews, and criticism such as "Woman's Dress," "More Radical Ideas upon Dress Reform," "Sermon in Stones at Bloomsbury," "Mrs. Langtry as Hester Grazebrook," "London Models," "Some Cruelties of Prison Life," "Oscar Wilde on Poets and Poetry," "Slaves of Fashion," "Costume," and "The American Invasion" to periodicals, including Pall Mall Gazette, Dramatic Review, Woman's World, New York World, Court and Society Review, English Illustrated Magazine, London Daily Chronicle, Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, and Chameleon. Newdigate Prize Poem: Ravenna, Recited in the Theatre, Oxford, June 26, 1878