The Works of oscar wilde (books, plays, lectures, sholrt story, sonnets, hes written)


NOVEL

  • The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890/1891)

PLAYS

  • Vera; or, The Nihilists (1880/1882)
  • The Duchess of Padua (1883)
  • Lady Windermere's Fan (1892)
  • A Woman of No Importance (1893)
  • Salomé (written in French, 1891; published 1893; English translation by Lord Alfred Douglas, 1894)
  • An Ideal Husband (1895)
  • The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)
  • La Sainte Courtisane (unfinished)
  • A Florentine Tragedy (unfinished)

FAIRY TALES & SHORT FICTION

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888):

  • The Happy Prince
  • The Selfish Giant
  • The Nightingale and the Rose
  • The Devoted Friend
  • The Remarkable Rocket

A House of Pomegranates (1891):

  • The Young King
  • The Birthday of the Infanta
  • The Fisherman and His Soul
  • The Star-Child

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891):

  • Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
  • The Canterville Ghost
  • The Sphinx Without a Secret
  • The Model Millionaire
  • The Portrait of Mr. W. H.

POETRY

  • Ravenna (1878) — winner of the Newdigate Prize
  • Requiescat (1880s)
  • Poems (1881) — his first collection, including:
    • Helas
    • To Milton
    • The Grave of Keats
    • Magdalen Walks
    • The New Helen
    • The Grave of Shelley
    • Eleutheria
    • The Garden of Eros
    • Rosa Mystica
    • The Burden of Itys
    • Wind Flowers
    • Charmides
    • Flowers of Gold
    • Impressions de Théâtre
    • Panthea
    • The Fourth Movement
    • Humanitad
    • Theocritus
  • The Harlot's House (1885)
  • The Sphinx (1894)
  • Poems in Prose (1894):
    • The Artist
    • The Doer of Good
    • The Disciple
    • The Master
    • The House of Judgement
    • The Teacher of Wisdom
  • The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898)

ESSAYS & CRITICISM

Intentions (1891), comprising:

  • The Critic as Artist
  • The Decay of Lying
  • Pen, Pencil and Poison
  • The Truth of Masks

Other essays:

  • The Philosophy of Dress (1885)
  • The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891)
  • Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young (1894)
  • A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated (1894)
  • The Rise of Historical Criticism (written in college; published posthumously 1905)
  • The Women of Homer (written 1876; published posthumously 2008)

LETTERS & PROSE

  • De Profundis (written 1895–97 in Reading Gaol; published in abridged form 1905, fuller versions 1913 and 1962)
  • The Letters of Oscar Wilde (written 1868–1900; published 1962; expanded as The Complete Letters of Oscar Wilde, 2000)

LECTURES

  • The English Renaissance in Art (delivered during his 1882 American tour)
  • House Decoration (American lecture tour, 1882)
  • The Decorative Arts (American lecture tour, 1882)
  • Personal Impressions of America (1883)
  • The Value of Art in Modern Life (1883–84)
  • Dress (1884)

ATTRIBUTED / DISPUTED

  • Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal (Paris, 1893) — authorship disputed; possibly co-written or edited by Wilde
  • Constance — a play scenario attributed to Wilde, though his grandson Merlin Holland disputed the extent of his authorship







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