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The picture of Dorian Gray and other writings, Oscar Wilde

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The picture of Dorian Gray and other writings, Oscar Wilde

Language

eng

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Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The picture of Dorian Gray and other writings

Nature of contents

dictionaries

Oclc number

869739758

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Oscar Wilde

Summary

Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," a product of his own prison experience; and four complete plays: Lady Windermere's Fan, his first dramatic success, An Ideal Husband, which pokes fun at conventional morality, The Importance of Being Earnest, his finest comedy, and SalomE, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written in French and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann. Every selection appears in its entirety'a marvelous collection of outstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who's been aptly called "a lord of language" by Max Beerbohm. From the Paperback edition

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