Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde’s works.Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume collection of Wilde’s texts available, containing his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts.Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Oscar Wilde, and a chronological table of his life and work.
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Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde
Introduction by Merlin Holland
Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION TO THE 1994 EDITION by MERLIN HOLLAND
INTRODUCTION TO THE 1966 EDITION by VYVYAN HOLLAND
Introduction by OWEN DUDLEY EDWARDS
THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST
LA SAINTE COURTISANE or THE WOMAN COVERED WITH JEWELS
LA BELLA DONNA DELLA MIA MENTE
THE DOLE OF THE KING’S DAUGHTER
A FRAGMENT FROM THE AGAMEMNON OF AESCHYLOS
THE ARTIST’S DREAM OR SEN ARTYSTY
ON THE SALE BY AUCTION OF KEATS’ LOVE LETTERS
WITH A COPY OF ‘A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES’
ESSAYS, SELECTED JOURNALISM, LECTURES AND LETTERS
Introduction by MERLIN HOLLAND
PERSONAL IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA
MRS LANGTRY AS HESTER GRAZEBROOK
TWO LETTERS TO THE DAILY CHRONICLE
THE SOUL OF MAN UNDER SOCIALISM
THE RISE OF HISTORICAL CRITICISM
A FEW MAXIMS FOR THE INSTRUCTION OF THE OVER-EDUCATED
PHRASES AND PHILOSOPHIES FOR THE USE OF THE YOUNG
APPENDIX A: CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE
APPENDIX B: ORDER OF POEMS (1882)
APPENDIX C: LIST OF ORIGINAL DEDICATIONS IN WILDE’S PUBLISHED WORKS
Owen Dudley Edwards, a Dubliner, was initially trained in historical research by Sir Rupert Hart-Davis, who was then editing The Letters of Oscar Wilde (1962). His own books include The Fireworks of Oscar Wilde (1989), and he has a biography of Oscar Wilde in preparation. He is now Reader in History at the University of Edinburgh, and is also a writer, broadcaster and theatre critic, whose first play will be staged at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 1994.
Terence Brown holds a personal chair in the School of English in Trinity College, Dublin. He is a Fellow of Trinity College and also a member of the Royal Irish Academy. He has written and edited many books. Among his publications are Louis MacNeice: Sceptical Vision (1975), Northern Voices: Poets from Ulster (1975), Ireland: a Social and Cultural History (1981, 2nd edition 1985), and Ireland’s Literature: Selected Essays (1986). He has recently published an edition of James Joyce’s Dubliners (1992), was a contributing editor of the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1992), and is currently at work on a book on Yeats. He has lectured on Anglo-Irish Literature in many parts of the world.
Declan Kiberd lectures in Anglo-Irish Literature at University College, Dublin. He is author of Synge and the Irish Language (1979, second edition 1993) and Men and Feminism in Modern Literature (1985). He edited the section on Wilde in the Field Day Anthology of Irish Writing (1991) and has lectured on the author in more than fifteen countries. Among his other scholarly commentaries are
