The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Beschreibung

A very attractive collection of works from popular Irish poet and playwright, Oscar Wilde, edited by his friend and literary executor, Robert Ross. A lovely selection of the plays, poetry and additional prose of Oscar Wilde.Complete in fifteen volumes, uniformly bound in the original blue cloth.Edited by Robert Ross, a British journalist, art critic and art dealer, best known for his devoted friendship to Wilde and to whom he was literary executor.Ross remained loyal to Wilde during his last years, offering emotional and financial support to him during his imprisonment and staying with him when he died in Paris in 1900.This set includes some of Wilde's most identifiable works, such as his controversial gothic novel, 'Picture of Dorian Gray', and his four-act comedy, 'Lady Windermere's Fan', following a woman who suspects of her husband's affair.With other miscellaneous writing such as his literary reviews, and a bibliography by Stuart Mason, which is illustrated throughout.The entirety of this set contains the following works:Volume I - The Duchess of PaduaVolume II - Salome: A Florentine Tragedy and VeraVolume III - Lady Windermere's Fan: A Play About a Good WomanVolume IV - A Woman of No ImportanceVolume V - An Ideal HusbandVolume VI - The Importance of Being EarnestVolume VII - Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Prose PiecesVolume VIII - Intentions and the Soul of ManVolume IX - The Poems of Oscar WildeVolume X - A House of PomegranatesVolume XI - De ProfundisVolume XII - The Picture of Dorian Gray and For Love of the KingVolume XIII - ReviewsVolume XIV - MiscellaniesVolume XV - Bibliography of Oscar Wilde Uniformly bound in the original blue cloth. Externally, excellent, with minor shelf wear and the odd mark to the board. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. Near Fine.

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Bibliografische Details

Titel

The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde

Verlag

Routledge; Thoemmes Press, London

Erscheinungsjahr

1993

Einband

Cloth

Illustrator

None

Zustand

Near Fine

Buchtyp

book

Verkäuferkataloge

• Plays