1854-1900

Presents plot summaries, character lists, and extracts of major critical essays on nineteenth-century Irish writer Oscar Wilde's plays "The Importance of Being Earnest," "An Ideal Husband," "Lady Windemere's Fan," and "A Woman of No Importance," and also includes biographical information on the playwright.

Details the life of Oscar Wilde, including his work as an author, his fascination with Catholicism, and his time in prison for a homosexual affair.

"Confronted at every turn by an insatiable audience of sometimes hostile interviewers, the young poet tried out a number of phrases, ideas, and strategies that ultimately made him famous as a novelist and playwright. Seeing America and Americans for the first time, Wilde's perception often proved as sharp as his wit; the echoes of both resound in much of his later writings. His interviewers also succeeded in getting him to talk about many other topics, from his opinions of British and American writers (he thought Poe was America's greatest poet) to his views of Mormonism. This volume cites all ninety-one of Wilde's interviews and contains transcripts of forty-eight of them, and it also includes his lecture on his travels in America."--BOOK JACKET.

Presents a critical analysis of Oscar Wilde's 1890 novel "The Picture of Dorian Gray," the story of a beautiful young man who trades his soul for the promise of eternal youth; and discusses the historical and literary contexts in which the novel appeared.

A graphic novel based on the Oscar Wilde classic, in which an incredibly handsome young man in Victorian England retains his youthful appearance over the years while his portrait reflects both his age and evil soul as he pursues a life of decadence and corruption.

Collects hundreds of letters spanning the life of nineteenth-century Irish playwright Oscar Wilde, including correspondence with such figures as W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, William Gladstone, and Max Beerbohm.

A graphic novel adaptation of Oscar Wilde's story about an English ghost who is outraged when the new American owners of his haunted house refuse to take him seriously.