When Cecily falls in love with Algy, who is pretending to be his friend Jack's wicked friend Ernest (recently deceased), there are bound to be problems -- not least from the dreaded Aunt Augusta.[...]

The giant doesn't want to share his garden with the children. The garden remains cold and wintry. Will the giant change his mind and let the children and the spring into his garden?[...]

Nicholas Frankel presents a new and revisionary account of Wilde's final years, spent in poverty and exile on the European continent following his release from an English prison for the crime of "gross indecency" between men. Oscar Wilde: The Unrepentant Years challenges the prevailing, traditional [...]

Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging epigrams and shrewd observations, the tale of Dorian Gray's moral disintegration caused something o[...]

'A Trivial Comedy for Serious People': its subtitle is the best summary of a play that is the theatrical equivalent of a butterfly. The verbal brilliance of its highly self-conscious characters hides deep anxieties about social and personal identity: Jack Worthing, found as a baby in a handbag at Vi[...]

Wilde's drama engages issues which are of immediate importance in modern culture and his stylish manner is calculated to permit a degree of detachment necessary when handling socially and politically explosive issues. The introduction sets the play in its historical, social and theatrical context.[...]

Why did a genius like Oscar Wilde rely on plagiarism from the beginning to the end of his career? Why did Edgar Allan Poe, Charles Baudelaire or Walter Pater do this as well? And how should teachers, critics and editors deal with the evidence of plagiarism at the heart of the canon? This book offers[...]

In OSCAR WILDE AND THE RING OF DEATH, the second in Gyles Brandreth's acclaimed Oscar Wilde Murder Mysteries series featuring Oscar Wilde and Arthur Conan Doyle, a parlour game of 'Murder' has lethal consequences...'Intelligent, amusing and entertaining' Alexander McCall Smith 'I see murder in this [...]

In January 1882, Oscar Wilde arrived in New York to begin a nationwide publicity tour. Mentioned in a few newspaper articles -- but barely a footnote in the history books -- was the black valet who accompanied him. In a daring and richly imaginative work, Louis Edwards rescues this figure from obscu[...]

The original CliffsNotes study guides offer expert commentary on major themes, plots, characters, literary devices, and historical background. The latest generation of titles in this series also feature glossaries and visual elements that complement the classic, familiar format.[...]

Complete and unabridged, with an author biography and a new introduction and afterword, this is the story of Dorian Gray who wishes he could remain as beautiful, youthful and alluring as he appears in his portrait. Little does he know that his wish will come true. But the consequences will haunt him[...]