Classics & Literature
A Woman of No Importance
Wilde uses social comedy to expose double standards around reputation, gender, marriage and the value society assigns to women
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Books by Oscar Wilde
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Poetry & Great Verse
Charmides, and other poems
Charmides and Other Poems collects early poetry by Oscar Wilde, combining lush description, mythological imagery, classical references, romantic feeling, and aesthetic attention to beauty. The title poem, Charmides, is a long narrative in which desire, beauty, and moral consequence unfold
Classics & Literature
Het portret van dorian gray
Dorian Gray is young, beautiful, and terrified that his beauty will not last. When the painter Basil Hallward produces a portrait of him, Dorian wishes that the picture would age instead of him
Poetry & Great Verse
Poems, with the ballad of reading gaol
Oscar Wilde’s Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol brings together the lyric and the deeply personal, culminating in the great prison poem written after Wilde’s imprisonment. Earlier poems show his fascination with beauty, love, art, myth, sorrow, and the musical possibilities of language
Drama & Theatre
The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde's comedy turns mistaken identities, courtship, marriage, and social hypocrisy into a fast-moving satire of Victorian manners and respectability
Classics & Literature
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A beautiful young man’s pursuit of pleasure becomes a Gothic study of influence, secrecy, aestheticism, vanity and the moral consequences of self-creation
Psychology & the Mind
The soul of man under socialism
Oscar Wilde’s The Soul of Man Under Socialism is less a technical economic program than a radical argument about individual freedom. Wilde begins from a simple conviction: a society that leaves people trapped by poverty and economic dependence cannot genuinely produce independent human beings
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