TY  - BOOK
AU  - Wilde,Oscar
TI  - Plays, prose writings, and poems
SN  - 0679405836
PY  - 1991///
CY  - New York
PB  - A.A. Knopf, Distributed by Random House
KW  - English prose literature
KW  - 19th century
N1  - The critic as artist : Part I-II -- The decay of lying -- The truth of masks -- The picture of Dorian Gray -- The portrait of Mr. W.H. -- Lord Arthur Savile's crime -- The soul of man under socialism -- Lady Windermere's fan -- The importance of being Earnest -- De Profundis -- Letter to Robert Ross, 31 May 1897 -- Apologia -- Requiescat -- The ballad of Reading Gaol
N2  - Wilde lived out a conflict between his public identity and his private self; and this fissure between the two is interestingly typical of his age. Introduction by Terry Eagleton
ER  -