This is a reading of Oscar Wilde's farcical play, "The Importance of Being Ernest".

The Importance of Being Earnest Complete & Unabridged

Literature & Fiction

Oscar, Wilde

Dramas & Plays

Harpercollins Pub, Ltd.

The Canterville Ghost

The Canterville Ghost is a novella by Oscar Wilde. It was the first of Wilde's stories to be published, appearing in two parts in The Court and Society Review, 23 February and 2 March 1887. The story is about a family who moves to a castle haunted by the ghost of a dead nobleman, who killed his wife and was starved to death by his wife's brothers. It has been adapted for the stage and screen several times. The home of the Canterville Ghost was the ancient Canterville Chase, which has all the accoutrements of a traditional haunted house. Descriptions of the wainscoting, the library panelled in black oak, and the armour in the hallway characterise the setting. Wilde mixes the macabre with comedy, juxtaposing devices from traditional English ghost stories such as creaking floorboards, clanking chains, and ancient prophecies.

Education & Teaching

Schools & Teaching

Addison Wesley Longman ELT Division (a Pearson Education company)

Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

Book Club Associates

This is a collection of the poetic works of Oscar Wilde. The majority of these poems were written before he was 27, with a handful of impressionistic lyrics and "The Ballad of Reading Gaol" written later. Wilde applies different slants to established forms.

The Complete Works Of Oscar Wilde

Collins

Complete works of Oscar Wilde

Essays & Correspondence

HarperCollins Publishers, Ltd

The third edition incorporates texts which were previously available only 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.

Biographies & Memoirs

Leaders & Notable People

Collins Celtic

This pithy collection contains the wit and wisdom of Oscar Wilde, drawn from his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters. It also includes a chronological table of Wilde's life and works.

Wilde Anthology (Collins Gems)

Classics

Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: Centenary Edition

Continuously in print since 1948, Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been established as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume collection of Wilde's writing. It includes his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays, and letters-all in their most authoritative texts. This new illustrated centenary edition also incorporates recent revisions to the text of his poetic masterpiece, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," as well as introductions by Merlin Holland (Wilde's grandson), Owen Dudley Edwards, Declan Kiberd, and Terence Brown. Completing this handsome new edition are a comprehensive bibliography and a chronology of Oscar Wilde's life and work.

Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde

British & Irish

HarperCollins, Publishers

Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost and his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best. Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, yet it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost, his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best. Of all nineteenth-century letter writers Oscar Wilde is, predictably, one of the most brilliant. Wonderfully fluent in style, the letters bear that most familiar of Wildean hallmarks - the lightest of touches for the most serious of subjects. He comments openly on his life and his work from the early years of undergraduate friendship, through his year-long lecture tour in America as a striving young 'Professor of Aesthetics', to the short period of fame and success in the early 1890s, when he corresponded with many leading political, literary and artistic figures of the time. Disgrace and imprisonment followed, but even in adversity his humour does not desert him. In this beautifully produced volume Merlin Holland has brought together his most revealing letters with an illuminating commentary. Together they form the closest thing we shall ever have to Wilde's own memoir.

Oscar Wilde : A Life in Letters

Arts & Literature

Fourth Estate

Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable Children's short stories written by one of our most successful playwrights of all time. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these seven short stories available on digital download only. Immerse yourself in a world where the wonderful Stephen Fry reads some of the more memorable short stories of our time. Stephen's voice takes you into a different kind of listening experience, enabling you to imagine narrative, settings, animals and people with vivid colour and meaning. Enjoy the work of one of the most celebrated writers of our time - Irish poet, playwright and short story writer Oscar Wilde. A brilliant combination of reader and writer come together in these six Children's short stories which are available from the 1st Decemeber 2008 on digital download only

Children's Stories by Oscar Wilde

Literary

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