Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde ShandonPress eBook Oscar Wilde
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This ebook contains all of Oscar Wilde's plays (including the fragments), his only novel, his fairy tales and short stories, the poems, all of his essays, lectures, reviews, and other newspaper articles, based on the 1909 edition of his works.
For easier navigation, there are tables of contents for each section and one for the whole volume. At the end of each text there are links bringing you back to the respective contents tables. I have also added an alphabetical index for the poems and a combined one for all the essays, lectures, articles, and reviews.
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Contents
THE PLAYS.
Vera or the Nihilists, The Duchess of Padua, Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, The Importance of Being Earnest, Salomé (the French original and Bosie's translation, and the fragments of La Sainte Courtisane and A Florentine Tragedy.
THE NOVEL.
The Picture of Dorian Gray.
THE STORIES.
All the stories and tales from The Happy Prince and Other Tales, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (incl. The Portrait of Mr. W.H.), and A House of Pomegranates.
THE POEMS.
The Collected Poems of O.W.
THE ESSAYS etc.
The four essays from 'Intentions', The Soul of Man under Socialism, De Profundis (the unabridged version!), The Rise of Historical Criticism, the lectures (The English Renaissance in Art, House Decoration, Art and the Handicraftsman, Lecture to Art Students)
Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde ShandonPress eBook Oscar Wilde
The categories above don't really apply to a massive anthology of plays, essays, poetry, and fiction. I was skeptical of this edition at first: those cheap/free loving-amateur compilations of public domain works after often riddled with typos, but I was pleasantly surprised; I've seen worse inaccuracies in books from major publishers. (The only problem was in that apparently the technology used by at least one transcriber did not support the Greek-language font, and the words Wilde left in the Greek alphabet were omitted; I wish the transcriber had at least tried to transliterate.) Wilde's major work (like the most perfect comedy in the English language, The Importance of Being Earnest) has been reprinted, but some of his essays and plays are simply hard to find outside a Complete Works in a university library. It's interesting to have both versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray in one place; some of his less popular works, like his first play, Vera, turn out to be better reading than I expected. Even the porno novel, Teleny, which the editors admit probably isn't by Wilde but may be a collaborative work by several of his friends, is entertaining: alove story disguised as what the Victorians considered hard-core! There are some early biographical sketches of Wilde that are amusing (though not to be taken with the same authority as a modern biography like Richard Ellmann's): Frank Harris obviously found Wilde as adorable as exasperating and never understood him in the least, and his fellow Irishman Shaw was--typically Shaw. This collection should support Wilde's reputation as one of the world's greatest writers.
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Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde ShandonPress eBook Oscar Wilde Reviews
The physical craftsmanship of the book was good. Well bound with your typical glossy, flexible soft cover. The book contained many of the great works of Oscar Wilde of which I can now say I am not a fan. It may be because my professor that assigned this reading brought everything in the book back to the topic of sex which at times was disturbing.
Oscar Wilde can turn a phrase and write a double entendre like few others. And he is hilarious. Like Twain, he can point out our foibles and failings, make us cast our eyes down or laugh aloud, or make us cry. A man of flesh and blood and intellect, a man whose life was success and failure, applause and scandal, he could wring every emotion from his audience, having experienced them himself. Read him and weep. And laugh.
I should write another review for Edgar Allan Poe sometime (I frequently refer to both Poe and Wilde as "The Man")...but first, Oscar Wilde's anthology.
Wow, I've probably still more than half of this collection to get through, though I've read "De Profundis" (Mr. Wilde's 80-page letter to Bosie, written while he was in prison) several times. Over, and over, from beginning to end, and for some reason, it gets better and better with each read.
As Oscar Wilde states himself (is there a more brilliant wit to quote?) "If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all."
I've read some of the poems, as well as "The Canterville Ghost" and "The Portrait of Dorian Gray"...I look forward to re-reading those, and discovering the gems I've missed so far!
It is all here, it is all REALLY here The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. His letters and interviews are not included (of course) but if you are looking for his poems, his short stories, or his plays look no further. The book also has two wonderful introductions to Oscar's works. One is written by his son Vyvyan and the other is written by his grandson Merlin.
This book is practically perfect in every way except for one and that is the book is a bit small. The size of the book is not so small that you will be severely annoyed but it is certainly not completely comfortable. That being said, a compilation of this quality at the very least warrants the forgiveness of this one minor imperfection.
Oscar Wilde is my favorite writer and I am very happy to own this book.
Delphi has become my first choice when purchasing collected works of authors and their Oscar Wilde collection is one of several I have purchased from them. I can get public domain works for free, so a seller has to offer something more to convince me to pay for something I could get free. As with Delphi's other collections, this is a first rate product. The works are in one folder, which makes my library more manageable, but other sellers offer that convenience. The comprehensive, complete public domain contents, active table of contents, numerous photographs, numerous illustrations, biographical information, contextual notes, low price, ability to receive upgrades, etc., set Delphi's collections apart and make them a bargain. The buyer who constantly gives Delphi one-star reviews must have a personal vendetta, because the product is definitely deserving of 5 stars by any objective standards. Collections where copyright laws prevent inclusion of an author's total oeuvre, are as complete as legally possible, and this is not the seller's fault and is not a fraud. The seller clearly states that non-public domain works are not included. The collections are still a bargain, and one can always supplement them by filling in the gaps from other sources. I hope Delphi continues to add more authors to their catalogue, because I prefer their collections to anyone else's. As for the works themselves, this is Oscar Wilde and that says it all--five stars!
The categories above don't really apply to a massive anthology of plays, essays, poetry, and fiction. I was skeptical of this edition at first those cheap/free loving-amateur compilations of public domain works after often riddled with typos, but I was pleasantly surprised; I've seen worse inaccuracies in books from major publishers. (The only problem was in that apparently the technology used by at least one transcriber did not support the Greek-language font, and the words Wilde left in the Greek alphabet were omitted; I wish the transcriber had at least tried to transliterate.) Wilde's major work (like the most perfect comedy in the English language, The Importance of Being Earnest) has been reprinted, but some of his essays and plays are simply hard to find outside a Complete Works in a university library. It's interesting to have both versions of The Picture of Dorian Gray in one place; some of his less popular works, like his first play, Vera, turn out to be better reading than I expected. Even the porno novel, Teleny, which the editors admit probably isn't by Wilde but may be a collaborative work by several of his friends, is entertaining a
love story disguised as what the Victorians considered hard-core! There are some early biographical sketches of Wilde that are amusing (though not to be taken with the same authority as a modern biography like Richard Ellmann's) Frank Harris obviously found Wilde as adorable as exasperating and never understood him in the least, and his fellow Irishman Shaw was--typically Shaw. This collection should support Wilde's reputation as one of the world's greatest writers.
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