Publisher's Synopsis
The genius of Oscar Wilde in a single volume. This tome includes plays (Lady Windermere's Fan; Salome; A Woman of No Importance; The Importance of Being Earnest; An Ideal Husband), a novel (The Picture of Dorian Gray), short stories (Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Canterville Ghost; The Sphinx Without a Secret; The Model Millionaire; The Portrait of Mr. W. H.), essays (The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Critic as Artist; The Truth of Masks; The Rise of Historical Criticism; The English Renaissance of Art; House Decoration; Art and the Handicraftsman; Lecture to Art Students; London Models; Poems in Prose; The Soul of Man Under Socialism) children's stories (The Happy Prince; The Nightingale and the Rose; The Selfish Giant; The Devoted Friend; The Remarkable Rocket; A House of the Young King; The Birthday of the Infanta; The Fisherman and His Soul; The Star-Child) and an extensive of selection of Wilde's prose, aphorisms and poetry, including the Ballad of Reading Gaol, and concludes with De Profundis. Salome has been into English by Lord Alfred Douglas and is illustrated by Aubrey Beardsley.
