The Portable Oscar Wilde (1946)

by Oscar Wilde

Other authors: Richard Aldington (Editor)

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Includes the following works: Novels- The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays-Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings-De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest are accompanied by Wilde's prison memoirs, poems, and selected correspondence.… (more)

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This humble Penguin paperback is one of the most well thumbed in my library. I have read it from beginning to end many times and still pick it up though we have other individual books. Unfortunately,the name of the editor of this omnibus edition book is mispelled on library thing and if it were changed I think many more copies would emerge. (

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I've only read The Picture of Dorian Grey so far, and it took me three years to get to it. The reading was slow going for me, but packed with lines and passages that I had to read several times to savor and mark for later, something I don't normally do. The ending was the kind that hits just right and made me forget any impatience I might have had earlier on. (

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Author name	Role	Type of author	Work?	Status
Oscar Wilde	—	primary author	all editions	calculated
Aldington, Richard	Editor	secondary author	all editions	confirmed
Weintraub, Stanley	Editor	secondary author	some editions	confirmed

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1946

1981 (revised edition)

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Art should never try to be popular; the public should try to make itself artistic.
--OSCAR WILDE
The Soul of Man under Socialism

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Includes the following works: Novels- The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays-Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings-De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest are accompanied by Wilde's prison memoirs, poems, and selected correspondence.

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