Works by Oscar Wilde: A Selected List (original) (raw)

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"I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again."

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Prose

• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
  • Dorian Gray as Symbolic Representation of Wilde's Personality
  • Radio dramatization available on CBS Radio Mystery Theater site (first broadcast - August 7, 1974)
• Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) **
• The Happy Prince and Other Tales (discussion)
• A House of Pomegranates (discussion)
• The Canterville Ghost**
• The Sphinx Without A Secret**
• The Model Millionare **

Plays

• Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)**
• Salome (1894) [introduction]
• A Woman of No Importance (1893)
• An Ideal Husband (1895)
• The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) [text — introduction]
• Marianne Drugeon's review of Emily Eells's ed. of Wilde in Earnest

Poems

• "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" (1898) [text outside VW]
• "Les Ballons" [text — discussion]
• "Charmides" [Two Cancelled Stanzas ]
• De Profundis [discussion]
• "The Harlot's House" [text — discussion]
• "Helas!" [text]
• "Impression du Matin" [text]
• "Pan — Double Villanelle" [text]
• "The Sphinx" [text]
• "Symphony In Yellow" [text]

Criticism and essays by Wilde

• "The Decay of Lying" (January 1889) [text — reading questions]
• “The Soul of Man under Socialism (text — commentary)
• “The Beauties of Bookbinding” (text)
• Wilde’s essays (sitemap for complete text of 18 other essays)

Related Materials

• Mitsuharu Matsuoka's Hyper-Concordance allows word searches the complete texts of The Picture of Dorian Gray, Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, and The Importance of Being Earnest
• The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, Volumes VI and VII (Journalism I and II). Ed. John Stokes and Mark Turner. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013 [Review by Anya Clayworth].

Last modified 2 June 2023