Fiction · 1914
Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde
Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde, first published in 1914, has been pulled into the Bibliomancer archive: the complete text, carefully cleaned and typeset, free to read online. Its editorial introduction is still being prepared.
Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- How They Struck a Contemporary
- The Quality of George Meredith
- Life the Fallacious Model
- Life the Disciple
- Life the Plagiarist
- The Indispensable East
- The Influence of the Impressionists on Climate
- An Exposure of Naturalism
- Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
- Wainewright at Hobart Town
- Cardinal Newman and the Autobiographers
- Robert Browning
- The Two Supreme and Highest Arts
- The Secrets of Immortality
- The Critic and His Material
- Dante the Living Guide
- The Limitations of Genius
- Wanted a New Background
- Without Frontiers
- The Poetry of Archaeology
- The Art of Archaeology
- Herod Suppliant
- The Tetrarch’s Remorse
- The Tetrarch’s Treasure
- Salome Anticipates Dr. Strauss
- The Young King
- A Coronation
- The King of Spain
- A Bull Fight
- The Throne Room
- A Protected Country
- The Blackmailing of the Emperor
- Covent Garden
- A Letter from Miss Jane Percy to Her Aunt
- The Triumph of American ‘Humor’
- The Garden of Death
- An Eton Kit-Cat
- Mrs. Erlynne Exercises the Prerogative of a Grandmother
- Motherhood More Than Marriage
- The Damnable Ideal
- From a Rejected Prize-Essay
- The Possibilities of the Useful
- The Artist
- The Doer of Good
- The Disciple
- The Master
- The House of Judgment
- The Teacher of Wisdom
- Wilde Gives Directions About ‘De Profundis’
- Carey Street
- Sorrow Wears No Mask
- Vita Nuova
- The Grand Romantic
- Clapham Junction
- The Broken Resolution
- Domesticity at Berneval
- A Visit to the Pope
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About the author
1854–1900 · Victorian
Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was born in Dublin, studied at Trinity College and at Oxford, and became the most celebrated wit of late-Victorian London. The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888), The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890–91), Lady Windermere’s Fan (1892), An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest (both 1895) made his reputation. In 1895 he was convicted of gross indecency and served two years’ hard labour; De Profundis and The Ballad of Reading Gaol came out of the experience. He died in Paris.
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