The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
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The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
| Full title | Complete Works of Oscar Wilde |
|---|---|
| Author | Oscar Wilde |
| Pages | 1,216 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | A single-volume collected Wilde — the plays, The Picture of Dorian Gray, the stories, poems and critical essays, and De Profundis, the long letter from Reading Gaol. The output covers barely two decades, which is what makes the volume startling: the same man wrote the fairy tales, the epigrams, the most durable comedy in English, and then the prison letter. |
The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Where I heard about it
- Dissident Teacher — on A Library to Build Great Americans, the 468-title curriculum the Substack writer published in December 2025, filed under Drama in the Ages 13–99+ band as a complete-works volume rather than a single play (the list does the same for Shakespeare).
About this edition
The collected shape carries its own lesson about how fast a public reputation can be destroyed: the trials that put Wilde in prison in 1895 for homosexual acts ended his career, and Dorian Gray had already been used against him as evidence.
Connections
- A Library to Build Great Americans — the list this came from.
- Oscar Wilde — the author.
- The Complete Works of Shakespeare — the list’s other complete-works entry in the Drama grouping.
- Republic of Letters — Wilde as critic and essayist, not only as playwright.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.