Greatest Works of Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde's comedies were written to be said aloud, and his one novel turned a joke about vanity into something considerably darker. This deluxe collection puts the plays, the fiction and the shorter pieces together. The Importance of Being Earnest supplies the sharpest of the drawing-room comedies, The Picture of Dorian Gray the gothic counterweight, and the short stories a gentler, often melancholy register that surprises readers who know only the epigrams. Across the selections the same interest holds: the distance between what society says it values and what it actually rewards. Things this volume brings together: • Plays, the novel and short fiction in one deluxe book • Includes The Picture of Dorian Gray as well as The Importance of Being Earnest • Wilde's epigrams alongside his more sombre storytelling • Convenient single volume for study or general reading Suited to drama students, readers of Victorian fiction and gift buyers, available in English from Boipoka.