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| Oscar Wilde. The Picture of Dorian Gray. | | Elibron Classics, 2002, 162 pages |
| Oscar O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), list of works | |  | | His name has become an adjective, Wildean, the absolute signifier of all that is witty, stylish, and subversive. The original dandy, Wilde is as much known for his celebrated life of pleasure, scandal, and tragedy, as for his comic plays, seething novels, sentimental fairy tales, and pithy sayings. His rise to fame for such plays as The Importance of Being Earnest and his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray and his subsequent fall into disgrace, exile, and imprisonment due to his conviction under draconian English sodomy laws make Wilde the most personally intriguing of the late Victorian writers. |
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