Subject: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 (Keywords)

This edition marks the centenary of Oscar Wilde's death. It contains over 1,500 of his letters, where he corresponded with many leading political, literary and artistic figures of the time including William Gladstone, W.B. Yeats and Max Beerbohm.

The fascinating story of the decadent and thrilling world of Oscar Wilde's wife Constance, and the world of scandal which would betray her.

The fascinating story of the decadent and thrilling world of Oscar Wilde's wife Constance, and the world of scandal which would betray her.

'The Fall of the House of Wilde' for the first time places Oscar Wilde as a member of one of the most dazzling Anglo-Irish families of Victorian times, and also in the broader social, political and religious context. A remarkable and perceptive account, this is a major repositioning of our first ...

Published in the centenary year of Oscar Wilde's death, this book celebrates Wilde's association with the Aesthetic Movement, which flourished in Britain and America in the late nineteenth century and which Wilde came to personify.

One of the most famous love affairs in literary history is that of Oscar Wilde and Lord Alfred Bosie Douglas. As a direct consequence of this relationship, Wilde underwent three trials in 1895. In this text, Merlin Holland presents the original transcript of the Wilde versus Queensberry trial.

London, 1894. 'I am not a detective, chief constable'. 'No, but you are a poet, a freemason and man of the world. All useful qualifications for the business at hand'. So says police chief Macnaghten to Oscar Wilde, in a Chelsea drawing room in the company of Arthur Conan Doyle.

Oscar Wilde, the Major Works brings together a unique combination of poetry, prose, short stories, play critical dialogues and Wilde's only novel, to explore the essence of his work and thinking processes.

The Marquess of Queensberry is perhaps as famous for destroying one of our greatest literary geniuses as he was for helping establish the rules for modern-day boxing. The trial and two-year imprisonment of Oscar Wilde, following a series of events inspired by Wilde's romantic interest in his son,...