Oscar Wilde
Explore the best books by Oscar Wilde, from 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' to 'The Importance of Being Earnest.' Discover his timeless wit, plays, and novels in this curated collection.
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Gross Indecency
by Moises Kaufman
Winner of the Lambda Literary Award In this stunning work of theater, Moises Kaufman turns the trials of Oscar Wilde into a riveting human and intellectual drama. In April 1895 Oscar Wilde brought a libel suit against the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his youthful lover, who had publicly maligned him as a sodomite. In doing so, England's reigning man of letters set in motion a series of events that would culminate in his ruin and imprisonment. For within a year the bewildered Wilde himself was on trial for acts of "gross indecency" and, implicitly—for a vision of art that outraged Victorian propriety. Expertly interweaving courtroom testimony with excerpts from Wilde's writings and the words of his contemporaries, Gross Indecency unveils its subject in all his genius and human frailty, his age in all its complacency and repression. The result is a play that will be read and studied for decades to come.
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De Profundis
by Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's letter to Lord Alfred Douglas written during the writer's two-year prison term