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Oscar Wilde
Gives readers a taste of the Classics’ huge range and diversity, with works from around the world and across the centuries - including fables, decadence, heartbreak, tall tales, satire, ghosts…
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Oscar Wilde’s The Picture of Dorian Gray is the story of a man who makes a devilish pact never to grow old.
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An account of Oscar Wilde’s spiritual journey while in prison, and describes his new, shocking conviction that ‘the supreme vice is shallowness’. It also includes further letters to his wife…
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One of the key launch titles in the Faber Children’s stylish Liberty Classics range, The Happy Prince and Other Tales is one of Oscar Wilde’s most charming and popular children’s…
Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners - the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde’s name as a writer of fiction, showing skill in a…
With warmth, tenderness and quiet wit, Oscar Wilde’s fables and fairy tales have moved and delighted for generations. In this selection are stories from The Happy Prince and A House…
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Over 120 years after Oscar Wilde submitted The Picture of Dorian Gray for publication, the uncensored version of his novel appears here for the first time in a paperback edition…
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The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, a beloved Gothic masterpiece of supernatural terror, is now available in an exquisite hardcover edition, featuring a striking cover and distinctive interior…
Michael Patrick Gillespie
Reading Oscar Wilde is a comprehensive interpretive guide designed for students and readers who come to Wilde's writings for the first time, delivering a fuller understanding of the works and…
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Maarten Asscher
While a student at Oxford, Oscar Wilde was courting a beautiful Dublin girl, Florence Balcombe, and on Christmas Day 1876 he presented her with a love gift of a golden…
In this magical fairytale collection, Oscar Wilde beautifully evokes (among others) the Happy Prince who was not so happy after all, the Selfish Giant who learned to love little children…
Discover Oscar Wilde's timeless tales of compassion, sacrifice, and the true meaning of happiness in The Happy Prince and Other Tales. From the selfless acts of a golden statue to…
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Horror hides behind an attractive face in ‘The Picture of Dorian Gray’, Oscar Wilde’s tale of a notorious Victorian libertine and his life of evil excesses.
Includes plays such as Lady Windermere’s Fan , Salome , A Woman of No Importance , An Ideal Husband , A Florentine Tragedy and The Importance of Being Earnest .
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Colin Cavendish-Jones
Oscar Wilde and Nihilism examines Wilde's major works in the context of nineteenth-century philosophical nihilism and the Victorian religious unsettlement.
The Dover Bookshelf presents Oscar Wilde's only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, in a splendid hardcover collectible. Published in 1891, the tale illuminates the dangers of vanity, hedonism, and…
The Soul of Man under Socialism, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have…
When handsome young Dorian Gray sees a painter's stunning portrait of him, he is transfixed by its reflection of his own beauty. He is also troubled by the knowledge that…
A new edition of Oscar Wilde's witty and radical major plays that elegantly challenge Victorian conceptions of social propriety. It contains an accessible and comprehensive new introduction that positions the…
Puffin Classics- the definitive collection of timeless stories, for every child
Rediscover the Puffin Classics collection and bring the best-loved classics to a new generation - including this charming edition…
The Importance of Being Earnest is both Oscar Wilde's most important and funniest play. As the subtitle suggests there is more to this play than its farcical nature suggests. Wilde…
Collected her in one omnibus edition are Oscar Wilde's most important works including The Importance of Being Earnest The Picture of Dorian Gray Salome Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde The…
Lola Kirke
In this darkly humorous memoir-in-essays, actress and singer-songwriter Lola Kirke untangles an extraordinary upbringing in a family of eccentric, messy artists and explains how a big city girl went a…
Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde contains the following seventeen poems The Ballad Of Reading Gaol Ave Imperatrix To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems Magdalen Walks Theocritus…
Despite warnings from Lord Canterville that their new home is haunted and that several family have fled form it in the middle of the night the Otis family chooses to…
"The Canterville Ghost" is a comedic short story written by Oscar Wilde, first published in 1887. Unlike Wilde's better-known plays and novels, such as "The Picture of Dorian Gray" and…
The Happy Prince, and Other Tales" is a collection of fairy tales and short stories written by Oscar Wilde and first published in 1888. The stories are renowned for their…
A truly classic gothic horror novel for the ages. A Picture of Dorian Gray has captivated generations of readers with its ethical and artistic questions. What are the true costs…
First published in 1898, The Importance of Being Furnest is a play written by Oscar Wilde that takes place during the Victorian Era. It is a classic comedy of manners…
Vera; Or, The Nihilists, a classical book, has been considered important throughout the human history, and so that this work is never forgotten we at Alpha Editions have made efforts…
