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. <p/>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.