His essays – in particular De Profundis– and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range. When he caught sight of Lord Henry, a faint blush coloured his cheeks for a moment, and he started up. Il peccato ti abbruttisce, ti contamina, ti danna l'anima, ma non ti rende automaticamente un animale. In many ways it is a traditional fairy tale with an obvious moral - a poor family finds an abandoned baby and raises him to be a beautiful boy. The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde’s works.

We offer a money back guarantee if you are not fully satisfied, please contact us if you have any questions.The edition I read was fully illustrated and I think that enhanced my reading experience, so a short thank you to all talented artists that contributed to this book! And now, Dorian, get up on the platform, and don’t move about too much, or pay any attention to what Lord Henry says. I choose my friends for their good looks, my acquaintances for their good characters, and my enemies for their good intellects. In a month there will be purple stars on the clematis, and year after year the green night of its leaves will hold its purple stars.

Suddenly the painter appeared at the door of the studio and made staccato signs for them to come in. Wilde’s works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. Very good copy in the original stiff-card wrappers; edges somewhat nicked and dust-dulled as with age. You know we poor artists have to show ourselves in society from time to time, just to remind the public that we are not savages.I believe some picture of mine had made a great success at the time, at least had been chattered about in the penny newspapers, which is the nineteenth-century standard of immortality.

It is quite true, I never talk when I am working, and never listen either, and it must be dreadfully tedious for my unfortunate sitters. I at once pictured to myself a creature with spectacles and lank hair, horribly freckled, and tramping about on huge feet.

I don’t agree with a single word that you have said, and, what is more, Harry, I feel sure you don’t either.

After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. There was a rustle of chirruping sparrows in the green lacquer leaves of the ivy, and the blue cloud-shadows chased themselves across the grass like swallows.

But this book was great because I had had no idea about some of his shorter stories and poems and plays and found new favorites! Illustrated with many fascinating photographs, the book includes introductions to each section by Merlin Holland (Oscar’s grandson), Owen Dudley Edwards, Declan Kiberd and Terence Brown. Pen, Pencil and Poison" First published in the Fortnightly Review (1889), republished in Intentions (1891).