Oscar Wilde Books

Books from the Author of The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde, in full Oscar Fingal O’Flahertie Wills Wilde, (born October 16, 1854, Dublin, Ireland—died November 30, 1900, Paris, France), Irish wit, poet, and dramatist whose reputation rests on his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), and on his comic masterpieces Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895). He was a spokesman for the late 19th-century Aesthetic movement in England, which advocated art for art’s sake, and he was the object of celebrated civil and criminal suits involving homosexuality and ending in his imprisonment (1895–97).

Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. A young Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, Wilde read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.

The lists below can be found on this app that give some his main works:

A Critic in Pall Mall Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies

A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane

A House of Pomegranates

A Woman of No Importance

An Ideal Husband

Charmides, and Other Poems

Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life

De Profundis

Essays and Lectures

Impressions of America

Intentions

Lady Windermere's Fan

Lord Arthur Savile Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other Stories

Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man

Miscellanies

Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Reviews

Salome Tragedy in One Act

Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde

Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde

Shorter Prose Pieces

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

The Canterville Ghost

The Duchess of Padua

The Happy Prince, and Other Tales

The Importance of Being Earnest A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

The Picture of Dorian Gray

The Soul of Man under Socialism

Vera; Or, The Nihilists

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