Image for Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde

Wilde, OscarMignall, Robert(Volume editor)Rudnicki, Stefan(Volume editor)
Part of the Everyman Poetry series
See all formats and editions

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was born in Dublin, the son of a surgeon and a poet.

He was educated at Trinity College, Dublin and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he won the Newdigate poetry prize.

In 1884 he married Constance Lloyd, and in 1888 he published The Happy Prince.

His only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray appeared in 1890.

He had major comedy successes in the theatre until he was ruined by imprisonment for homosexual offences.

The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) was inspired by his experience in prison

Read More
Title Unavailable: Out of Print
Product Details
0753816628 / 9780753816622
Hardback
821.8
04/09/2003
United Kingdom
English
[v], 115 p.
18 cm
general Learn More
Reprint. Originally published: London: Everyman, 1996.
An attractive hardback gift edition at a superb price o o High production values - head and tail bands, ribbon marker and decorative end papers o o The best poems by one of the world's greatest poets o o A new edition of one of the bestselling titles in the Everyman Poetry series All titles already published in Phoenix Poetry series have been reprinted
An attractive hardback gift edition at a superb price o o High production values - head and tail bands, ribbon marker and decorative end papers o o The best poems by one of the world's greatest poets o o A new edition of one of the bestselling titles in the Everyman Poetry series All titles already published in Phoenix Poetry series have been reprinted 2AB English, DSBF Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 , DSC Literary studies: poetry & poets