Wilde, Oscar

Jack Worthing, needing a regular escape from his dull country routine, creates a fictitious brother Ernest who supposedly lives in London, but the lie backfires when he falls in love.

Presents the complete writings of nineteenth-century author Oscar Wilde, featuring his one novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray," and including plays, stories, poems, essays, and letters. Includes illustrations by Charles Robinson and Aubrey Beardsley.

Contains five plays by Oscar Wilde.

"Painter Basil Hallward has done a portrait of a strange subject-youthful Dorian Gray, a man with a mysterious and tangled history. The young man broods on how unfair it is that he will age and his portrait will remain ever young. He wishes with all his might that it were otherwise-and in some bizarre, magical way-it is!" -- from publisher's web site.

A beautiful, golden, jewel-studded statue and a little swallow give all they have to help the poor.

Collects five plays by nineteenth-century Irish writer Oscar Wilde, including the title selection in which Jack Worthing, needing a regular escape from his dull country routine, creates a fictitious brother Ernest who supposedly lives in London, but the lie backfires when he falls in love; and offers an introduction to the author.

Presents nearly four hundred quotations by Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, arranged by theme.