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Excerpt from The Library of William Andrews Clark, Jr. Wilde and Wildeiana, Vol. 1
Among tfie powerful prose writers fie surely must tafie a place in tfie front ranfi. His De Profundis, so remarfi afily edited fiy Rofiert R oss, will always live as an example of a supreme efhrt in sefi-analysis. H is fairy stories are wondrous worfis ofsfiillful narrative power in tfie realm of fantastic and imaginative tales. His Picture ofdori an Gray will certainly command attention as a psycfio logical delineation oftfie decline of a man's moral fifire. His critical essays are illuminating and are replete witfi epigrammatic firilliancy, and fiis Portrait of W H is as fine a piece of literary tfieoretical deduction as fias ever fieen penned in tfie Englisfi language.
A fier two failures in tfie drama fie wrote fiis firilliant and paradoxical comedies wfiicfi will ever live alongside tfie creations of Sfieridan and otfiers, and fiis one power ful drama, Salome, is a play tfiat even today fiolds tfie stage in Europe and America, and is produced in nearly every language.
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