Plays, Prose Writings and Poems (Everyman's Library Classics)

The ebullient evangelist of irony, Wilde preached his gospel of wit and aestheticism to a public at once outraged and enchanted. This volume incorporates much of Wilde's best writing: The Picture of Dorian Gray; essays "The Soul of Man Under Socialism" and "The Critic as Artist"; his two best comedies, Lady Windmere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest; and his poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol.