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"I treated art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction." Even as he celebrated the artificial and raised frivolity to an art form, Oscar Wilde was creating a new vocabulary of artistic expression-one that was witty and elegant and genuinely subversive in its assault on moral imperatives. In this marvelously inclusive anthology, Richard Aldington and Stanley Weintraub present the most quotable and influential of Wilde's writings. The novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and the plays Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest are included here in their entirety, along with the complete, unexpurgated text of the prison memoir De Profundis. In addition there are selections from the comedies Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, and An Ideal Husband; reviews, poems, fairy tales that Wilde originally wrote for his children, the dialogue "The Critic as Artist," letters, and the sardonic manifesto "Pharases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young." Book jacket.

Introduction	p. 1
Some Dates in the Life of Oscar Wilde
The Critic as Artist
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Salome
The Importance of Being Earnest
De Profundis	p. 508
Poems, Poems in Prose, and a Fairy Tale	p. 659
Helas!	p. 659
from Ave Imperatrix	p. 659
Requiescat	p. 660
from The Burden of Itys	p. 661
from Charmides	p. 661
Symphony in Yellow	p. 664
The Harlot's House	p. 664
On the Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letters	p. 665
Portia: Written at the Lyceum Theatre	p. 666
The Ballad of Reading Gaol	p. 667
The Selfish Giant	p. 690
Reviews	p. 696
from A Bevy of Poets	p. 696
from Pleasing and Prattling	p. 697
from A "Jolly" Art Critic	p. 698
from A Cheap Edition of a Great Man	p. 699
from The Poets' Corner, III	p. 699
from The Poets' Corner, V	p. 700
from Poetry and Prison	p. 701
Letters from Oscar Wilde	p. 703
to Mrs George Lewis	p. 703
to Mrs Bernard Beere	p. 704
to Robert H. Sherard	p. 707
to Constance Lloyd Wilde	p. 709
to the Editor of the Scots Observer	p. 709
to Bernard Shaw	p. 712
to the Editor of The Times	p. 712
to Grace Hawthorne	p. 713
to Lord Alfred Douglas	p. 714
to Robert Ross	p. 715
to Lord Alfred Douglas	p. 716
to the Home Secretary	p. 718
to Carlos Blacker	p. 724
to Reginald Turner	p. 727
to Leonard Smithers	p. 728
to Robert Ross	p. 730
Wildean Wit from the Other Comedies	p. 733
from Lady Windermere's Fan	p. 733
from A Woman of No Importance	p. 734
from An Ideal Husband	p. 737
Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young	p. 739
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The Portable Oscar Wilde

The Portable Oscar Wilde

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