Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

The third edition incorporates texts which were previously only available in difficult-to-obtain form as well as corrections and emendations to the text by the critic and columnist Merlin Holland, Oscar Wilde's grandson. It also includes newly commissioned introductions to the poems, plays, stories and selected letters and journalism from such contributors as the biographer and critic Owen Dudley Edwards, and the Irish poet and scholar Declan Kiberd. The book retains the 1966 introduction by Oscar Wilde's son, Vyvyan Holland, and now also has a new introduction by Merlin Holland, explaining the significance of the text, with his observations on the public interest of the biography of Wilde by Richard Ellman.

Holland, Merlin

Wilde, Óscar

HOLLAND, Vyvyan

Literature & Fiction

HarperCollins, Publishers

London's Central Criminal Court Sessions Papers for April 1895 were blunt, declaring that "the details of this case are unfit for publication." The case was Oscar Wilde's first trial, a libel action brought against the Marquess of Queensberry for publicly calling him a homosexual. What unfolded in the court was one of Victorian London's most infamous scandals: the great, doomed love affair between Wilde and Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas, the Marquess's son. When it became public, it cost Wilde everything.
Merlin Holland, Wilde's grandson and a noted researcher and archivist, has discovered the original transcript of the trial that led to his grandfather's tragedy. Here for the first time is the true, uncensored record, free of the distortions and censorship of previous accounts.
On 18 February 1895, Bosie's father delivered a note to the Albemarle Club addressed to "Oscar Wilde posing as a somdomite [sic]." With Bosie's encouragement, Wilde decided to sue the Marquess for libel. As soon as the trial opened, London's literary darling was at the center of the greatest scandal of his time.
Wilde's fall from grace was swift: having lost this case, he was in turn prosecuted and later imprisoned. Bankrupted, he fled to Paris never to see his family again. Within five years he was dead, his health never having recovered from the years in Reading gaol.
This remarkable book reveals Wilde on trial for his life, though he did not know it -- his confidence ebbing under the relentless cross-questioning, the wit for which he was so celebrated gradually deserting him under the remorseless scrutiny. The tragic climax falls when Wilde is betrayed by his own cleverness, unconsciously playing into the prosecutor's hands. With that his cause is lost.

The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde: The First Uncensored Transcript of The Trial of Oscar Wilde vs. John Douglas (Marquess of Queensberry), 1895

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Harper

Oscar Wilde had one of literary history's most explosive love affairs with Lord Alfred "Bosie" Douglas. In 1895, Bosie's father, the Marquess of Queensberry, delivered a note to the Albemarle Club addressed to "Oscar Wilde posing as sodomite." With Bosie's encouragement, Wilde sued the Marquess for libel. He not only lost but he was tried twice for "gross indecency" and sent to prison with two years' hard labor. With this publication of the uncensored trial transcripts, readers can for the first time in more than a century hear Wilde at his most articulate and brilliant. The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde documents an alarmingly swift fall from grace; it is also a supremely moving testament to the right to live, work, and love as one's heart dictates.

The Real Trial of Oscar Wilde

Harper-perennial

Set in the decadent world of Victorian London, a beautiful young man called Dorian Gray becomes infatuated by the exquisite portrait that Basil Hallward has painted of him. He makes a Faustian pact that the picture will grow old while he remains forever young. Oscar Wilde's only novel caused an immediate scandal when it was first published in 1890 and its themes of youth and decay, innocence and corruption, art and reality are even more relevant to us in the 21st century than in the 19th. Adapted by Wilde's grandson Merlin Holland and John O'Connor, this delightfully witty version of Wilde's story incorporates material suppressed from the original manuscript.

The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Dramas & Plays

Samuel French Ltd.

The most comprehensive collection of photographs and images of Wilde--compiled by his only grandson. Oscar Wilde was one of the first and unquestionably one of the greatest self-publicists who ever lived. With that exceptional streak of modernity that characterized much of his life and work, he understood the power of the image in his campaign to promote the self. As early as his Oxford days, he had himself photographed with his contemporaries in loud checked suits of the latest fashion. The Wilde Album now publishes more of these images of Oscar than have ever been seen together before, as well as later photographs, some previously unpublished, from the family archive, including rare snapshots of Oscar in his last years in Italy; the famous sitting in New York for Napoleon Sarony in fur coat and velvet suit; and the good, the bad, and the vicious caricatures, cartoons, and lithographs. In the accompanying text, Merlin Holland examines Wilde's life as reflected in the photographs and images, paying particular attention to his relationships with friends, family, and lovers, as well as the profound influence of his Irish upbringing. He also investigates the reasons for the adverse opinions his work engered and the background to the famous legal battles that finally led to imprisonment and exile.

The Wilde Album

Arts & Photography

Photography & Video

Henry Holt and Co.

Imagined by Oscar Wilde's own grandson, this fictionalised conversation presents the essential biography of the poet, playwright and gay martyr. Renowned for his endlessly quotable pronouncements, Oscar Wilde cut a dashing figure in late Victorian London ... until his tragic downfall resulting from an ill-judged libel action. We remember him not only for his famous trial and imprisonment, but also for a "devil's dictionary" of timeless aphorisms and for the enduring brilliance of plays such as The Importance of Being Earnest. Wilde's life resembles his early short story, "The Remarkable Rocket", which, rising from nowhere in a shower of sparks, explodes and falls to earth, exclaiming as it goes out, "I knew I should create a great sensation." Merlin Holland expertly traces the arc of his illustrious ancestor's life, from his birth in Dublin in 1854 as Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, to a brilliant career at Oxford University where his reputation for dandyish wit was first honed, through to his conquest of the drawing rooms and theatres of fashionable London, culminating in disgrace and imprisonment at the hands of the Marquess of Queensberry in the most notorious libel trial in English history. Wilde died in penury and obscurity in 1900, yet his reputation today has never been greater. This engaging and innovative short book features a concise biographical essay on Wilde's meteoric career, followed by a Q&A interview based on Wilde's own words and Merlin Holland's unrivalled knowledge of his grandfather's life, work and puckish observations. This sparkling biography does full justice to Oscar Wilde's writerly genius and irrepressible humanity. It offers readers a renewed appreciation for a man who at times scadalised his era as much as he delights our own.

Conversations with Wilde: A Fictional Dialogue Based on Biographical Facts

Watkins Publishing

Oscar Wilde’s own grandson, with the help of actor and author Simon Callowwho has performed Wilde’s work on stagecapture the essence of this wittiest of all playwrights. Set in Paris, where he fled after the scandalous trial that revealed his homosexuality, Wilde chats about language, his mother (an esteemed Irish folklorist), transforming his life into a work of art (My great tragedy is that I put my genius into my lifeand only my talent into my work”), his time in prison, his concept of morality, and why he thinks in life, style, not sincerity, is the essential.”

Coffee with Oscar Wilde (Coffee with...Series)

British & Irish

Duncan Baird

Shipped from UK, please allow 10 to 21 business days for arrival. Very Good, 1st Edition Thus 2000. Very Thick Royal 8vo. 1296 pp. Several illustrations from photographs, silver endpapers. Very good clean tight sound square, no bookplate, inscriptions or marks of any kind. Very good in bright gilt lettered crisp royal purple cloth, together with very good unclipped portrait pictorial dustwrapper. Over 1,500 letters collated by Oscar Wilde's grandson, and revealing 'a quite extraodinary classical and philosphical education', infamous wit and the poignancy of his final years. Very heavy volume, incurs additional postage overseas, particualrly outside Europe.

The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde

Harpercollins

In 1895, John Douglas, Marquess of Queensbury and father of Alfred Douglas—Oscar Wilde’s intimate friend and lover—left a note at the Albemarle Club for the playwright addressing him as a “sodomite.” Unable to let the slight pass, and egged on by Alfred, Wilde sued the marquess for libel, thus initiating a sensational trial that would result in the sentencing of the former to two years of hard labor. This fascinating chronicle of the trial gathers heretofore inaccessible transcripts and portrays Wilde with all of his eloquence, wit, and theatricality, qualities that were nonetheless unable to prevent—and, indeed, may have contributed to—his conviction. This riveting account will appeal to Wilde enthusiasts, fans of literature, and legal scholars.
 En 1895, John Douglas, el marqués de Queensbury y padre de Alfred Douglas—el enamorado de Oscar Wilde—envió al club Albermarle una nota dirigida al dramaturgo en el cual se refirió a él como un “sodomita.” Indispuesto a ignorar la ofensa, y con el aliento de su joven galán, Wilde demandó por calumnia al marqués e inició un escandaloso juicio que acabaría sentenciando al primero a dos años de trabajos forzados. Esta crónica fascinante del juicio reúne hasta ahora inaccesibles autos del pleito y presenta a Wilde con toda su elocuencia, su ingenio y su teatralidad, cualidades que no obstante fueron incapaces de prevenir—y aún pueden haber contribuido a—su condena. Este relato apasionante atraerá a fanáticos de Wilde y de la literatura, así como estudiantes del derecho.

El marqués y el sodomita: Oscar Wilde ante la justicia (Papel de liar) (Spanish Edition)

Global Rhythm Press

The Picture of Dorian Gray / Le Portrait de Dorian Gray (MANUSCRIT): (Le manuscrit original d'Oscar Wilde (1890) - Préface : Jean-Marie Rouart)

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