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Books about Oscar Wilde -- Books by Oscar Wilde

Books about Oscar Wilde:

• Oscar Wilde: The Story of an Unhappy Friendship, With Portraits and Facsimile Letters (London: Privately printed, Hermes Press, 1902), by Robert Harborough Sherard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Life of Oscar Wilde (with a reprint of "Jacta Alea Est"; New York: M. Kennerley, 1906), by Robert Harborough Sherard, contrib. by Lady Wilde (page images at HathiTrust)
• Oscar Wilde (London: T. W. Laurie, ca. 1907), by C. Ranger Gull (multiple formats at archive.org)
• The Real Oscar Wilde: To Be Used as a Supplement to, and in Illustration of, "The Life of Oscar Wilde" (London: T. W. Laurie, ca. 1916), by Robert Harborough Sherard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Oscar Wilde: His Life and Confessions (2 volumes; New York: The author, 1918), by Frank Harris
  • Volume I: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust
• Oscar Wilde From Purgatory: Psychic Messages (c1924), by Hester Travers Smith, contrib. by William Barrett (text at Gutenberg Australia)
• New Preface to "The Life and Confessions of Oscar Wilde" (London: Fortune Press, c1925), by Frank Harris and Alfred Bruce Douglas (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Secreted Desires: The Major Uranians, Hopkins, Pater and Wilde (Brno: Masaryk University, 2006), by Michael Matthew Kaylor (PDF with commentary at mmkaylor.com)

• Bibliography of Oscar Wilde (published under "Stuart Mason" pseudonym; London: T. W. Laurie, ca. 1914), by Christopher Millard, contrib. by Robert Baldwin Ross
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Wilde v. Whistler: Being an Acrimonious Correspondence on Art Between Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler (unauthorized publication of correpondence taken from Whistler's "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies"; London: Privately printed, 1906), by Oscar Wilde and James McNeill Whistler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Poems in Prose and Private Letters; Including an Intimate Preface by His Biographer (Pearson's Library, 1919), by Oscar Wilde, contrib. by Frank Harris (photocopy: page images at HathiTrust)

• Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study (London: M. Secker, 1912), by Arthur Ransome (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Oscar Wilde: A Critical Study (New York: M. Kennerley, 1912), by Arthur Ransome
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• The Green Carnation, by Robert Hichens
  • PDF at In Parentheses
  • Gutenberg text

• Recollections of Oscar Wilde (Boston and London: J. W. Luce and Co., 1906), by Ernest La Jeunesse, André Gide, and Franz Blei, ed. by Percival Pollard (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Poems in Prose and Private Letters; Including an Intimate Preface by His Biographer (Pearson's Library, 1919), by Oscar Wilde, contrib. by Frank Harris (photocopy: page images at HathiTrust)

• A Thousand Words: Portraiture, Style, and Queer Modernism (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2006), by Jaime Hovey (PDF at Ohio State)

• Oscar Wilde and Myself (New York: Duffield and Co., 1914), by Alfred Bruce Douglas (page images at HathiTrust)

• Poems in Prose and Private Letters; Including an Intimate Preface by His Biographer (Pearson's Library, 1919), by Oscar Wilde, contrib. by Frank Harris (photocopy: page images at HathiTrust)

Books by Oscar Wilde:

• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Ballad of Reading Gaol (Gutenberg text)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Birthday of the Infanta (HTML in Ireland)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Canterville Ghost (HTML in Ireland)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Canterville Ghost (Boston and London: John W. Luce and Co., 1906), illust. by Wallace Goldsmith
  • Gutenberg text, illustrated HTML, and audio
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Charmides and Other Poems (Gutenberg text)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Complete Shorter Fiction (searchable HTML and PDF at Bibliomania)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Critic as Artist: A Dialogue (HTML in Ireland)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: De Profundis (Gutenberg text)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Decay of Lying (HTML in Ireland)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Duchess of Padua
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  • Gutenberg text
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Essays and Lectures (Gutenberg text)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Fisherman and His Soul (HTML in Ireland)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: A Florentine Tragedy (HTML in Ireland)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: For Love of the King: A Burmese Masque (Gutenberg text)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Happy Prince and Other Tales, illust. by Walter Crane and G. P. Jacomb Hood (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: A House of Pomegranates (Gutenberg text)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900, contrib.: Humorous Ghost Stories (New York and London: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1921), ed. by Dorothy Scarborough, also contrib. by Gelett Burgess, Ellis Parker Butler, Frank R. Stockton, Théophile Gautier, Brander Matthews, John Kendrick Bangs, Richard Middleton, Wallace Irwin, Nelson Lloyd, Eden Phillpotts, Ruth McEnery Stuart, Will Adams, Washington Irving, Thomas Ingoldsby, Burges Johnson, Elsie Brown, and Rose Cecil O'Neill
  • Gutenberg text and LibriVox audio
  • page images at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust; US access only
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: An Ideal Husband
  • HTML in Ireland
  • Gutenberg text
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Importance of Being Earnest
  • HTML at FireBlade
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• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Intentions (London: Methuen and Co., 1913) (Gutenberg text)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Intentions: The Decay of Lying; Pen, Pencil and Poison; The Critic as Artist; The Truth of Masks (New York: Brentano's, 1905), contrib. by Percival Pollard
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Lady Windermere's Fan
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• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, The Portrait of Mr. W. H., and Other Stories (Gutenberg text)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900, contrib.: Man or the State? A Group of Essays by Famous Writers (New York: B. W. Huebsch, 1919), ed. by Waldo R. Browne, also contrib. by Petr Alekseevich Kropotkin, Henry Thomas Buckle, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Herbert Spencer, and Leo Tolstoy
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Miscellanies (1908), ed. by Robert Baldwin Ross (Gutenberg text)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Pen, Pencil and Poison (HTML in Ireland)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Picture of Dorian Gray (20-chapter version)
  • HTML at FireBlade
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• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Picture of Dorian Gray (13-chapter version, 1890) (Gutenberg text)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Poems (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1881) (HTML at Bartleby)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Poems (with biographical introduction; New York: Brentano's, 1910), contrib. by Temple Scott
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Poems in Prose and Private Letters; Including an Intimate Preface by His Biographer (Pearson's Library, 1919), contrib. by Frank Harris (photocopy: page images at HathiTrust)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Poems; The Ballad of Reading Gaol (based on the 1913 Methuen edition) (Gutenberg text)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (HTML in Ireland)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Reviews (1908), ed. by Robert Baldwin Ross (Gutenberg text)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Rise of Historical Criticism (HTML in Ireland)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Salome: A Tragedy in One Act (New York and London: John Lane, 1907), illust. by Aubrey Beardsley (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde, ed. by Robert Baldwin Ross (Gutenberg text)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde (Gutenberg text)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Soul of Man
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• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Sphinx (reformatted edition based on London: E. Mathews and J. Lane, 1894), illust. by Charles S. Ricketts (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Sphinx (London and New York: J. Lane, 1920), illust. by Alastair (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Star-Child (HTML in Ireland)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900, contrib.: Teleny, or The Reverse of the Medal: A Physiological Romance of To-Day (authorship uncertain, but sometimes attributed to Wilde and/or others; 2 volumes, 1893)
  • Volume 1: page images at UBC
  • Volume 2: page images at UBC
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: The Truth of Masks (HTML in Ireland)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Vera, or The Nihilists (HTML in Ireland)
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: Wilde v. Whistler: Being an Acrimonious Correspondence on Art Between Oscar Wilde and James A. McNeill Whistler (unauthorized publication of correpondence taken from Whistler's "The Gentle Art of Making Enemies"; London: Privately printed, 1906), also by James McNeill Whistler
  • multiple formats at archive.org
  • page images at HathiTrust
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900: A Woman of No Importance
  • HTML in Ireland
  • Gutenberg text
• Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900, ed.: The Woman's World (UK-based Victorian women's magazine), also ed. by Ella Hepworth Dixon (partial serial archives)

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