The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Writings

Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel, <i>The Picture of Dorian Gray</i>; his last literary work, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” a product of his own prison experience; and four complete plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first dramatic success, <i>An Ideal Husband</i>, which pokes fun at conventional morality, <i>The Importance of Being Earnest</i>, his finest comedy, and <i>Salomé</i>, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written in French and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann.<br><br>Every selection appears in its entirety–a marvelous collection of outstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who’s been aptly called “a lord of language” by Max Beerbohm.