Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (First Collected Edition 1948, Reprinted 2001)

Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (First Collected Edition 1948, Reprinted 2001) by Vyvyan Holland. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780681897427.

The Collins edition of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognised as the most comprehensive one-volume collection of Oscar Wilds work available. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde contains his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Fray, all his stories, plays and poems, and a substantial number of his essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts. The Complete works was the first one-volume edition to include The Portrait of Mr W.H. in which Wilde expanded his theory concerning the mystery of Shakespeares Sonnets, and also A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated" a series of aphorisms typical of Wilde. It carries too, an Introduction specially written by the late Vyvay Holland, Oscar Wildes son.