Oscar Wilde

Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde

Book ExcerptPreface by Robert RossHow They Struck a ContemporaryThe Quality of George MeredithLife in the Fallacious ModelLife the DiscipleLife the PlagiaristThe Indispensable EastThe Influence of the Impressionists on ClimateAn Exposure to NaturalismThomas Griffiths WainewrightWainewright at Hobart TownCardinal Newman and the AutobiographiersRobert BrowningThe Two Supreme and Highest ArtsThe Secrets of ImmortalityThe Critic and his MaterialDante the Living GuideThe Limitations of GeniusWanted A New BackgroundWithout FrontiersThe Poetry of ArchaeologyThe Art of ArchaeologyHerod SuppliantThe Tetrarch's RemorseThe Tetrarch's TreasureSalome anticipates Dr. StraussThe Young KingA CoronationThe King of SpainA Bull FightThe Throne RoomA Protected CountryThe Blackmailing of the EmperorCovent GardenA Letter from Miss Jane Percy to her AuntThe Triumph of American 'Humor'The Garden of DeathAn Eton Kit-catMrs. Erlynne Exercises the Prerogative of a GrandmotherMotherhood more than MarriageThe Damnable IdealFrom a Rejected Prize-essayThe Possibilities of the UsefulThe ArtistThe Doer of GoodThe DiscipleThe MasterThe House of JudgmentThe Teacher of WisdomWilde gives directions about 'De Profundis'Carey StreetSorrow wears no maskVita NuovaThe Grand RomanticClapham JunctionThe Broken ResolutionDomesticity at BernevalA visit to the Pope