Author:Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde (1854–1900)

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Oscar Wilde

Works

Plays

• Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880)
• The Duchess of Padua (1883)
• Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
• A Woman of No Importance (1893)
• An Ideal Husband (1895)
• The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
• Salomé: A Tragedy in One Act (1904)
• A Florentine Tragedy (1908)
• La Sainte Courtisane (1908)

Novel

• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890, revised 1891)

Short fiction

• The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
  • The Happy Prince
  • The Nightingale and the Rose
  • The Devoted Friend
  • The Selfish Giant
• House of Pomegranates (1891)
  • The Young King
  • The Birthday of the Infanta
  • The Fisherman and His Soul
  • The Star-Child
• Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891)
  • Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
  • The Canterville Ghost
  • The Model Millionaire

Essays, aphorisms

• Intentions, (1891)
  • The Decay of Lying
  • The Critic as Artist
  • Pen, Pencil, and Poison
  • The Truth of Masks
• The Soul of Man Under Socialism, (1891)
• Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young, (1894)
• A Few Maxims For The Instruction Of The Over-Educated, (1894)

Letters

• De Profundis
• Letter to Robert Browning

Poetry

• Amor Intellectualis
• Apologia
• Athanasia
• At Verona
• Ave Imperatrix, (1902)
• Ave Maria Gratia Plena
• The Ballad of Reading Gaol
• Ballade de Margueritte (Normande)
• La Bella Donna della Mia Mente
• The Burden of Itys
• By the Arno
• Camma
• Canzonet
• Chanson
• Charmides
• Désespoir
• The Dole of the King's Daughter (Breton)
• E Tenebris
• Easter Day
• Endymion (for Music)
• Fabien Dei Franchi: To My Friend Henry Irving
• Fantaisies Décoratives
• Flower of Love
• From Spring Days to Winter (for Music)
• The Garden of Eros
• The Grave of Keats
• The Grave of Shelley
• The Harlot's House
• Hélas!
• Her Voice
• Humanitad
• Impression: Le Réveillon
• Impression de Voyage
• Impression du Matin
• Impressions
• Impressions: Les Silhouettes
• Impressions: La Fuite de la Lune
• In the Forest
• In the Gold Room: A Harmony
• Italia
• Le Jardin des Tuileries
• Libertatis Sacra Fames
• Louis Napoleon
• Lotus Leaves
• Madonna Mia
• Magdalen Walks
• My Voice
• The New Helen
• The New Remorse
• On the Sale by Auction of Keats' Love Letters
• Pan: Double Villanelle
• Panthea
• Phèdre: To Sarah Bernhardt
• Poems in Prose: The Artist
• Poems in Prose: The Disciple
• Poems in Prose: The Doer of Good
• Poems in Prose: The House of Judgement
• Poems in Prose: The Master
• Poems in Prose: The Teacher of Wisdom
• Quantum Mutata
• Quia Multum Amavi
• Ravenna, (1878, winner of the Newdigate Prize)
• Requiescat
• Rome Unvisited
• San Miniato
• Santa Decca
• Serenade (for Music)
• The Shamrock, (August 5, 1894, published in The Weekly Sun)
• Silentium Amoris
• Sonnet: On Hearing the Dies Iræ Sung in the Sistine Chapel
• Sonnet: On the Massacre of the Christians in Bulgaria
• Sonnet: Written in Holy Week at Genoa
• Sonnet on Approaching Italy
• Sonnet to Liberty
• Sonnets: Written at the Lyceum Theatre: Portia
• Sonnets: Written at the Lyceum Theatre: Queen Henrietta Maria
• Symphony in Yellow
• Tædium Vitæ
• Theocritus: A Villanelle
• Theoretikos
• To L. L.
• To Milton
• To My Wife: With a Copy of My Poems
• The Sphinx
• The True Knowledge
• Under the Balcony
• Urbs Sacra Æterna
• A Vision
• Vita Nuova
• Wasted Days (from a Picture Painted by Miss V. T.)
• With a Copy of "A House of Pomegranates"
• Αἴλινον αἴλινον εἰπέ, τὸ δ’ εὖ νικάτω
• Γλυκύπικρος ἔρως
• La Mer, (1913)
• Le Panneau, (1913)
• Canzonet, (1913)
• Les Balloons, (1913)
• Le Jardin, (1913)

Works about Wilde

• Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions (1916), by Frank Harris
• Oscar Wilde, an Idler's Impression (1917), by Edgar Everston Saltus.
• To R. R. (On Rereading the "De Profundis" of Oscar Wilde), a poem by Florence Earle Coates.
• “Wilde, Oscar O'Flaherty” in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons, 1910.
• “Wilde, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills” in Encyclopædia Britannica, (11th ed.), 1911.
• “Wilde, Oscar O'Flahertie Wills,” in Dictionary of National Biography Supplement, London: Smith, Elder, & Co., (1901) in 3 vols.

Works by this author published before January 1, 1923 are in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago. Translations or editions published later may be copyrighted. Posthumous works may be copyrighted based on how long they have been published in certain countries and areas.