The Essential Oscar Wilde Reader

by Oscar Wilde

Overview

A volume in the Essential Readers series containing:

-The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People
-The Picture of Dorian Gray
-An Ideal Husband
-Lady Windermere's Fan
-A Woman of No Importance
-Vera; Or, The Nihilists
-A House of Pomegranates
-The Canterville Ghost
-De Profundis
-The Duchess of Padua
-The Happy Prince, and Other Tales
-Impressions of America
-The Soul of Man under Socialism
-Intentions

Product Details

BN ID:	2940156781034
Publisher:	B# Publishing
Publication date:	09/21/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

The ever-quotable Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish playwright, novelist, essayist, and poet who delighted Victorian England with his legendary wit. He found critical and popular success with his scintillating plays, chiefly The Importance of Being Earnest, while his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, scandalized readers. Imprisoned for two years for homosexual behavior, Wilde moved to France after his release, where he died destitute.

Date of Birth:

October 16, 1854

Date of Death:

November 30, 1900

Place of Birth:

Dublin, Ireland

Place of Death:

Paris, France

Education:

The Royal School in Enniskillen, Dublin, 1864; Trinity College, Dublin, 1871; Magdalen College, Oxford, England, 1874