Best of Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde is one of the most quotable of authors, as this collection of extracts from his prose clearly demonstrates. It also illustrates the breadth of interest, from the delightfully comic to the profoundly serious, of this supremely talented but ultimately tragic figure.
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‘There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.’ Oscar Wilde
Introduction1'Remorse'7'The Harlot's House'7'Roses and Rue'8'Theocritus'11'Helas!'11The Duchess of Padua12'The Nightingale and the Rose'13'The Remarkable Rocket'19'The Selfish Giant'26'The Decay of Lying'30'The Critic as Artist'32'The Soul of Man under Socialism'36'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime'44'The Canterville Ghost'50'The Sphinx Without a Secret'54'The Model Millionaire'59The Picture of Dorian Gray64'The Birthday of the Infanta'79Lady Windermere's Fan86A Woman of No Importance90'Poems in Prose'96'A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated'98'Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young'99An Ideal Husband101The Importance of Being Earnest103First letter to the Daily Chronicle160Second letter to the Daily Chronicle165De Profundis166'The Ballad of Reading Gaol'173Index of Titles and First Lines183
