The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde E-Book

Oscar Wilde

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This comprehensive eBook presents the complete works or all the significant works - the Œuvre - of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - 5680 pages easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • The Picture of Dorian Gray • The Importance of Being Earnest: A Trivial Comedy for Serious People • An Ideal Husband • The Happy Prince, and Other Tales • The Canterville Ghost • De Profundis • A Woman of No Importance • Lady Windermere's Fan • The Happy Prince and Other Tales • The Picture of Dorian Gray • The Ballad of Reading Gaol • The Picture of Dorian Gray • Salomé • Intentions • The Soul of Man under Socialism • Essays and Lectures • Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol • A House of Pomegranates • Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde • Lord Arthur Savile's Crime; The Portrait of Mr. W.H., and Other Stories • Miscellaneous Aphorisms; The Soul of Man • The Importance of Being Earnest • The Picture of Dorian Gray • Reviews • Vera; Or, The Nihilists • The Happy Prince and Other Tales • Selected Poems of • Poèmes (Französisch) • A Critic in Pall Mall: Being Extracts from Reviews and Miscellanies • The Duchess of Padua • Impressions of America • Miscellanies • The Canterville Ghost • Shorter Prose Pieces • Charmides, and Other Poems • De Profundis • For Love of the King • A Florentine Tragedy; La Sainte Courtisane • Children in Prison and Other Cruelties of Prison Life •.etc.

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Table of Contents

THE PREFACE

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

CHAPTER XIV

CHAPTER XV

CHAPTER XVI

CHAPTER XVII

CHAPTER XVIII

CHAPTER XIX

CHAPTER XX

BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

CHAPTER VIII

CHAPTER IX

CHAPTER X

CHAPTER XI

CHAPTER XII

CHAPTER XIII

SEBASTIAN MELMOTH

THE SOUL OF MAN

LORD ARTHUR SAVILE’S CRIME THE PORTRAIT OF Mr. W. H.AND OTHER STORIES

LORD ARTHUR SAVILE’S CRIMEA STUDY OF DUTY

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

THE CANTERVILLE GHOST A HYLO-IDEALISTIC ROMANCE

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

CHAPTER IV

CHAPTER V

CHAPTER VI

CHAPTER VII

THE SPHINX WITHOUT A SECRETAN ETCHING

THE MODEL MILLIONAIREA NOTE OF ADMIRATION

THE PORTRAIT OF MR. W. H.

CHAPTER I

CHAPTER II

CHAPTER III

INTENTIONS

IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA.

IMPRESSIONS.

I. LE JARDIN.

II. LA MER.

PREFACE.

IMPRESSIONS OF AMERICA.

OSCAR WILDE IN AMERICA.

A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES

THE YOUNG KING

THE BIRTHDAY OF THE INFANTA

THE FISHERMAN AND HIS SOUL

THE STAR-CHILD

THE HAPPY PRINCE AND OTHER TALES

THE HAPPY PRINCE

THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE ROSE

THE SELFISH GIANT

THE DEVOTED FRIEND

THE REMARKABLE ROCKET

DE PROFUNDIS

A CRITIC IN PALL MALL

CONTENTS

p. 1THE TOMB OF KEATS (Irish Monthly, July 1877.)

KEATS’S SONNET ON BLUE (Century Guild Hobby Horse, July 1886.)

p. 8DINNERS AND DISHES (Pall Mall Gazette, March 7, 1885.)

SHAKESPEARE ON SCENERY (Dramatic Review, March 14, 1885.)

HENRY THE FOURTH AT OXFORD (Dramatic Review, May 23, 1885.)

A HANDBOOK TO MARRIAGE (Pall Mall Gazette, November 18, 1885.)

p. 21TO READ OR NOT TO READ (Pall Mall Gazette, February 8, 1886.)

THE LETTERS OF A GREAT WOMAN (Pall Mall Gazette, March 6, 1886.)

BÉRANGER IN ENGLAND (Pall Mall Gazette, April 21, 1886.)

THE POETRY OF THE PEOPLE (Pall Mall Gazette, May 13, 1886.)

THE CENCI (Dramatic Review, May 15, 1886.)

BALZAC IN ENGLISH (Pall Mall Gazette, September 13, 1886.)

BEN JONSON (Pall Mall Gazette, September 20, 1886.)

MR. SYMONDS’ HISTORY OF THE RENAISSANCE (Pall Mall Gazette, November 10, 1886.)

MR. MORRIS’S ODYSSEY (Pall Mall Gazette, April 26, 1887.)

RUSSIAN NOVELISTS (Pall Mall Gazette, May 2, 1887.)

MR. PATER’S IMAGINARY PORTRAITS (Pall Mall Gazette, June 11, 1887.)

A GERMAN PRINCESS (Woman’s World, November 1887.)

A VILLAGE TRAGEDY

MR. MORRIS’S COMPLETION OF THE ODYSSEY (Pall Mall Gazette, November 24, 1887.)

p. 70MRS. SOMERVILLE (Pall Mall Gazette, November 30, 1887.)

ARISTOTLE AT AFTERNOON TEA (Pall Mall Gazette, December 16, 1887.)

EARLY CHRISTIAN ART IN IRELAND (Pall Mall Gazette, December 17, 1887.)

MADAME RISTORI (Woman’s World, January 1888.)

p. 91ENGLISH POETESSES (Queen, December 8, 1888.)

VENUS OR VICTORY (Pall Mall Gazette, February 24, 1888.)

M. CARO ON GEORGE SAND (Pall Mall Gazette, April 14, 1888.)

A FASCINATING BOOK (Woman’s World, November 1888.)

p. 123HENLEY’S POEMS (Woman’s World, December 1888.)

SOME LITERARY LADIES (Woman’s World, January 1889.)

POETRY AND PRISON (Pall Mall Gazette, January 3, 1889.)

THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO WALT WHITMAN (Pall Mall Gazette, January 25, 1889.)

p. 152IRISH FAIRY TALES (Woman’s World, February 1889.)

p. 158MR. W. B. YEATS (Woman’s World, March 1889.)

MR. YEATS’S WANDERINGS OF OISIN (Pall Mall Gazette, July 12, 1889.)

MR. WILLIAM MORRIS’S LAST BOOK (Pall Mall Gazette, March 2, 1889.)

SOME LITERARY NOTES (Woman’s World, April 1889.)

MR. SWINBURNE’S POEMS AND BALLADS (third series) (Pall Mall Gazette, June 27, 1889.)

A CHINESE SAGE (Speaker, February 8, 1890.)

MR. PATER’S APPRECIATIONS (Speaker, March 22, 1890.)

SENTENTIAE (Extracted from Reviews)

CHILDREN IN PRISONAND OTHER CRUELTIESOF PRISON LIFE.

The Canterville Ghost

An amusing chronicle of the tribulations of the Ghost of Canterville Chase when his ancestral halls became the home of the American Minister to the Court of St. James

WILDE

I

II

III

IV

V

VI

VII

THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL

Version One

Version Two

CHARMIDES AND OTHER POEMS

p. vCONTENTS

p. 9CHARMIDES

p. 65POEMS

p. 67REQUIESCAT

p. 69SAN MINIATO

p. 71ROME UNVISITED

p. 77HUMANITAD

p. 114LOUIS NAPOLEON

p. 116ENDYMION(FOR MUSIC)

p. 119LE JARDIN

p. 120LA MER

p. 121LE PANNEAU

p. 124LES BALLONS

p. 126CANZONET

p. 129LE JARDIN DES TUILERIES

p. 131PANDOUBLE VILLANELLE

p. 135IN THE FOREST

p. 136SYMPHONY IN YELLOW

p. 137SONNETS

p. 139HÉLAS!

p. 140TO MILTON

p. 141ON THE MASSACRE OF THE CHRISTIANS IN BULGARIA

p. 142HOLY WEEK AT GENOA

p. 143URBS SACRA ÆTERNA

p. 144E TENEBRIS

p. 145AT VERONA

p. 146ON THE SALE BY AUCTION OF KEATS’ LOVE LETTERS

p. 147THE NEW REMORSE

SALOMÉ

A TRAGEDY IN ONE ACT:

TRANSLATED FROM THE FRENCH OF

OSCAR WILDE,

WITH SIXTEEN DRAWINGS BY AUBREY BEARDSLEY

LONDON: JOHN LANE, THE BODLEY HEAD

NEW YORK: JOHN LANE COMPANY, MCMVII

A NOTE ON "SALOMÉ."

NEW STAGE CLUB.

"SALOMÉ,"

BY OSCAR WILDE.

May 10th and 13th 1905.

THE DUCHESS OF PADUA

ESSAYS AND LECTURES

p. viiCONTENTS

p. ixPREFACE

p. 1THE RISE OF HISTORICAL CRITICISM

I

II

III

IV

p. 109THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE OF ART

p. 157HOUSE DECORATION

p. 173ART AND THE HANDICRAFTSMAN

p. 197LECTURE TO ART STUDENTS

p. 213LONDON MODELS

p. 227POEMS IN PROSE

The Artist

The Doer of Good

The Disciple

The Master

The House of Judgment

The Teacher of Wisdom

FOOTNOTES

PREFACE BY ROBERT ROSS

ROBERT ROSS

A FLORENTINE TRAGEDY—A FRAGMENT

CHARACTERS:

CURTAIN

LA SAINTE COURTISANE OR, THE WOMAN COVERED WITH JEWELS

FOR LOVE OF THE KING

p. iiiINTRODUCTORY NOTE

p. ixPRINCIPAL CHARACTERS OF THE PLAY

p. 1ACT I

SCENE I

p. 6SCENE II

p. 10SCENE III

p. 15ACT II

SCENE I

p. 23ACT III

SCENE I

p. 27SCENE II

p. 30SCENE III

p. 35SCENE IV

p. 37SCENE V

Footnotes:

AN IDEAL HUSBAND

THE PERSONS OF THE PLAY

THE SCENES OF THE PLAY

THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET

FIRST ACT

SCENE

SECOND ACT

SCENE

THIRD ACT

SCENE

FOURTH ACT

SCENE

The Importance of Being Earnest A Trivial Comedy for Serious People

THE PERSONS IN THE PLAY

THE SCENES OF THE PLAY

LONDON: ST. JAMES’S THEATRE

FIRST ACT

SCENE

SECOND ACT

SCENE

THIRD ACT

SCENE

MISCELLANIES BY OSCAR WILDE

DEDICATION: TO WALTER LEDGER

INTRODUCTION

THE TOMB OF KEATS

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY, 1877

THE GROSVENOR GALLERY 1879

L’ENVOI

MRS. LANGTRY AS HESTER GRAZEBROOK

WOMAN’S DRESS

MORE RADICAL IDEAS UPON DRESS REFORM

MR. WHISTLER’S TEN O’CLOCK

THE RELATION OF DRESS TO ART: A NOTE IN BLACK AND WHITE ON MR. WHISTLER’S LECTURE

KEATS’S SONNET ON BLUE

THE AMERICAN INVASION

SERMONS IN STONES AT BLOOMSBURY: THE NEW SCULPTURE ROOM AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM

THE UNITY OF THE ARTS: A LECTURE AND A FIVE O’CLOCK

ART AT WILLIS’S ROOMS

MR. MORRIS ON TAPESTRY

SCULPTURE AT THE ARTS AND CRAFTS

PRINTING AND PRINTERS

THE BEAUTIES OF BOOKBINDING

THE CLOSE OF THE ARTS AND CRAFTS

ENGLISH POETESSES

LONDON MODELS

LETTER TO JOAQUIN MILLER

NOTES ON WHISTLER

I. (World, November 14, 1883.)

II. (World, February 25, 1885.)

III. (World, November 24,1886.)

REPLY TO WHISTLER

LETTERS ON DORIAN GRAY

I. MR. WILDE’S BAD CASE

II. MR. OSCAR WILDE AGAIN

III. MR. OSCAR WILDE’S DEFENCE

IV. (St. James’s Gazette, June 30, 1890.)

V. ‘DORIAN GRAY’

VI. MR. WILDE’S REJOINDER

VII. ART AND MORALITY

VIII.

AN ANGLO-INDIAN’S COMPLAINT

A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES

I.

II.

PUPPETS AND ACTORS

LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN: AN EXPLANATION

SALOMÉ

THE THIRTEEN CLUB

THE ETHICS OF JOURNALISM

I.

II.

THE GREEN CARNATION

PHRASES AND PHILOSOPHIES FOR THE USE OF THE YOUNG

THE RISE OF HISTORICAL CRITICISM

IV.

LA SAINTE COURTISANE; OR, THE WOMAN COVERED WITH JEWELS

THE ENGLISH RENAISSANCE OF ART

HOUSE DECORATION

ART AND THE HANDICRAFTSMAN

LECTURE TO ART STUDENTS

BIBLIOGRAPHY BY STUART MASON

NOTE

I.—AUTHORISED ENGLISH EDITIONS

II.—EDITIONS PRIVATELY PRINTED FOR THE AUTHOR

III.—MISCELLANEOUS CONTRIBUTIONS TO MAGAZINES, PERIODICALS, Etc.

POEMSBY OSCAR WILDE

NOTE

p. vCONTENTS

p. 1POEMS

p. 3HÉLAS!

p. 5ELEUTHERIA

p. 7SONNET TO LIBERTY

p. 8AVE IMPERATRIX

p. 14TO MILTON

p. 15LOUIS NAPOLEON

p. 16SONNET

p. 17QUANTUM MUTATA

p. 18LIBERTATIS SACRA FAMES

p. 19THEORETIKOS

p. 21THE GARDEN OF EROS

p. 37ROSA MYSTICA

p. 39REQUIESCAT

p. 40SONNET ON APPROACHING ITALY

p. 41SAN MINIATO

p. 42AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA

p. 43ITALIA

p. 44SONNET

p. 45ROME UNVISITED

p. 49URBS SACRA ÆTERNA

p. 50SONNET

p. 51EASTER DAY

p. 52E TENEBRIS

p. 53VITA NUOVA

p. 54MADONNA MIA

p. 55THE NEW HELEN

p. 61THE BURDEN OF ITYS

p. 81WIND FLOWERS

p. 83IMPRESSION DU MATIN

p. 84MAGDALEN WALKS

p. 86ATHANASIA

p. 89SERENADE

p. 91ENDYMION

p. 93LA BELLA DONNA DELLA MIA MENTE

p. 95CHANSON

p. 97CHARMIDES

p. 133FLOWERS OF GOLD

p. 135IMPRESSIONS

I LES SILHOUETTES

p. 136II LA FUITE DE LA LUNE

p. 137THE GRAVE OF KEATS

p. 138THEOCRITUS

p. 139IN THE GOLD ROOM

p. 140BALLADE DE MARGUERITE

p. 143THE DOLE OF THE KING’S DAUGHTER

p. 145AMOR INTELLECTUALIS

p. 146SANTA DECCA

p. 147A VISION

p. 148IMPRESSION DE VOYAGE

p. 149THE GRAVE OF SHELLEY

p. 150BY THE ARNO

p. 153IMPRESSIONS DE THÉÂTRE

p. 155FABIEN DEI FRANCHI

p. 156PHÈDRE

p. 157WRITTEN AT THE LYCEUM THEATRE

I PORTIA

p. 158II QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA

p. 159III CAMMA

p. 161PANTHEA

p. 173THE FOURTH MOVEMENT

p. 175IMPRESSION

p. 176AT VERONA

p. 177APOLOGIA

p. 179QUIA MULTUM AMAVI

p. 180SILENTIUM AMORIS

p. 181HER VOICE

p. 183MY VOICE

p. 184TÆDIUM VITÆ

p. 185HUMANITAD

p. 209FLOWER OF LOVE

p. 211ΓΛΥΚΥΠΙΚΡΟΣ ΕΡΩΣ

p. 215UNCOLLECTED POEMS

p. 217FROM SPRING DAYS TO WINTER

p. 219TRISTITÆ

p. 220THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE

p. 221IMPRESSIONS

I LE JARDIN

p. 222II LA MER

p. 223UNDER THE BALCONY

p. 225THE HARLOT’S HOUSE

p. 227LE JARDIN DES TUILERIES

p. 228ON THE SALE BY AUCTION OF KEATS’ LOVE LETTERS

p. 229THE NEW REMORSE

p. 230FANTAISIES DÉCORATIVES

I LE PANNEAU

p. 232II LES BALLONS

p. 233CANZONET

p. 235SYMPHONY IN YELLOW

p. 236IN THE FOREST

p. 237TO MY WIFE

p. 238WITH A COPY OF ‘A HOUSE OF POMEGRANATES’

p. 239ROSES AND RUE

p. 242DÉSESPOIR

p. 243PAN

p. 245THE SPHINX

p. 247THE SPHINX

p. 269THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL

p. 273THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL

p. 305RAVENNA

p. 307RAVENNA

SELECTED POEMS OF OSCAR WILDE

p. vPREFACE

CONTENTS

p. ixNOTE

p. 1THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL

p. 59APPENDIXp. 61THE BALLAD OF READING GAOL

p. 87POEMSp. 89AVE IMPERATRIX

p. 100TO MY WIFEWITH A COPY OF MY POEMS

p. 102MAGDALEN WALKS

p. 106THEOCRITUSA VILLANELLE

p. 108GREECE

p. 110PORTIATO ELLEN TERRY

p. 112FABIEN DEI FRANCHITO MY FRIEND HENRY IRVING

p. 114PHÈDRETO SARAH BERNHARDT

p. 116SONNET

p. 118AVE MARIA GRATIA PLENA

p. 120LIBERTATIS SACRA FAMES

p. 122ROSES AND RUE

p. 128FROM ‘THE GARDEN OF EROS’

p. 140THE HARLOT’S HOUSE

p. 144FROM ‘THE BURDEN OF ITYS’

p. 158FLOWER OF LOVE

SELECTED PROSE OF OSCAR WILDE

DEDICATION

PREFACE

HOW THEY STRUCK A CONTEMPORARY

THE QUALITY OF GEORGE MEREDITH

LIFE THE FALLACIOUS MODEL

LIFE THE DISCIPLE

LIFE THE PLAGIARIST

THE INDISPENSABLE EAST

THE INFLUENCE OF THE IMPRESSIONISTS ON CLIMATE

AN EXPOSURE OF NATURALISM

THOMAS GRIFFITHS WAINEWRIGHT

WAINEWRIGHT AT HOBART TOWN

CARDINAL NEWMAN AND THE AUTOBIOGRAPHERS

ROBERT BROWNING

THE TWO SUPREME AND HIGHEST ARTS

THE SECRETS OF IMMORTALITY

THE CRITIC AND HIS MATERIAL

DANTE THE LIVING GUIDE

THE LIMITATIONS OF GENIUS

WANTED A NEW BACKGROUND

WITHOUT FRONTIERS

THE POETRY OF ARCHÆOLOGY

THE ART OF ARCHÆOLOGY

HEROD SUPPLIANT

THE TETRARCH’S REMORSE

THE TETRARCH’S TREASURE

SALOMÉ ANTICIPATES DR. STRAUSS

THE YOUNG KING

A CORONATION

THE KING OF SPAIN

A BULL FIGHT

THE THRONE ROOM

A PROTECTED COUNTRY

THE BLACKMAILING OF THE EMPEROR

COVENT GARDEN

A LETTER FROM MISS JANE PERCY TO HER AUNT

THE TRIUMPH OF AMERICAN ‘HUMOR’

THE GARDEN OF DEATH

AN ETON KIT-CAT

MRS. ERLYNNE EXERCISES THE PREROGATIVE OF A GRANDMOTHER

MOTHERHOOD MORE THAN MARRIAGE

THE DAMNABLE IDEAL

FROM A REJECTED PRIZE-ESSAY

THE POSSIBILITIES OF THE USEFUL

THE ARTIST

THE DOER OF GOOD

THE DISCIPLE

THE MASTER

THE HOUSE OF JUDGMENT

THE TEACHER OF WISDOM

WILDE GIVES DIRECTIONS ABOUT ‘DE PROFUNDIS’

CAREY STREET

SORROW WEARS NO MASK

VITA NUOVA

THE GRAND ROMANTIC

CLAPHAM JUNCTION

THE BROKEN RESOLUTION

DOMESTICITY AT BERNEVAL

A VISIT TO THE POPE

OSCAR WILDE—SHORTER PROSE PIECES

PHRASES AND PHILOSOPHIES FOR THE USE OF THE YOUNG

MRS. LANGTRY AS HESTER GRAZEBROOK

SLAVES OF FASHION

WOMAN'S DRESS

MORE RADICAL IDEAS UPON DRESS REFORM

COSTUME

THE AMERICAN INVASION

SERMONS IN STONES AT BLOOMSBURY THE NEW SCULPTURE ROOM AT THE BRITISH MUSEUM

L'ENVOI

VERA; OR, THE NIHILISTS.

VERA; OR, THE NIHILISTS.

BY OSCAR WILDE.

PERSONS IN THE PROLOGUE.

PERSONS IN THE PLAY.

PROLOGUE.

ACT I.1

ACT II.

ACT III.

ACT IV.

CORRECTIONS AND ADDITIONS.

First Edition

THE PICTUREOF

DORIAN GRAY

THE PREFACE

Theartist is the creator of beautiful things. To reveal art and conceal the artist is art's aim. The critic is he who can translate into another manner or a new material his impression of beautiful things. The highest, as the lowest, form of criticism is a mode of autobiography.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.

There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

The nineteenth century dislike of Realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of Romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass.

The moral life of man forms part of the subject-matter of the artist, but the morality of art consists in the perfect use of an imperfect medium. No artist desires to prove anything. Even things that are true can be proved. No artist has ethical sympathies. An ethical sympathy in an artist is an unpardonable mannerism of style.

No artist is ever morbid. The artist can express everything.