Oscar Wilde

Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (October 16, 1854 – November 30, 1900) was an Anglo-Irish playwright, novelist, poet, and short story writer. One of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day, known for his barbed and clever wit, he suffered a dramatic downfall and was imprisoned after being convicted in a famous trial of "gross indecency" for his homosexuality.

Bibliography

Poetry

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• Poems (1881)
• The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

Plays

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• Vera, or The Nihilists (1880)
• The Duchess of Padua (1883)
• Salomé (French version) (1893, first performed in Paris 1896)
• Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
• A Woman of No Importance (1893)
• Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act: Translated from the French of Oscar Wilde by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley (1894)
• An Ideal Husband (1895) http://wikisource.org/wiki/An_Ideal_Husband
• The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) http://wikisource.org/wiki/The_Importance_of_Being_Earnest
• La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy first published 1908 in Methuen's Collected Works

(Dates are dates of first performance, which approximate far better with the probable date of composition than dates of first publication.)

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Prose

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• The Canterville Ghost (1887)
• The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888) http://www.gutenberg.net/dirs/etext97/hpaot10h.htm
• The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (1889)
• Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime and other Stories (1891)
• Intentions (1891)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)
• House of Pomegranates (1891)
• The Soul of Man Under Socialism (First published in the Pall Mall Gazette, 1891, first book publication 1904)
• De Profundis (1905)
• The Letters of Oscar Wilde (1960) This was rereleased in 2000, with letters uncovered since 1960, and new, detailed, footnotes by Merlin Holland.