Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously. Written by Jeremy Perkins {J-26}

Contents
Introduction by Richard Ellmann
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Lady Windemere's Fan
Salome
An Ideal Husband
The Importance of being Earnest
The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Wilde’s scintillating drawing-room comedy revolves around a blackmail scheme that forces a married couple to reexamine their moral standards. A supporting cast of young lovers, society matrons, and a formidable femme fatale exchange sparkling repartee, keeping the action of the play at a lively pace.

There is not a GOOD woman in London who would not applaud me. We have been too lax. We must make an example. I propose to begin to-night. [Picking up fan.] Yes, you gave me this fan to-day; it was your birthday present. If that woman crosses my threshold, I shall strike her across the face with it.

Lord Alfred Douglas’ translation of Wilde’s great play (originally written in French), with all well-known Beardsley illustrations, including suppressed plates. The best edition. 28 Beardsley illustrations; introduction by Robert Ross.

艺术高于生活、艺术反映现实的唯美主义思想，在这部小说中得到了充分的体现。主人公道连一步步走向堕落，并沦为杀人犯，在他自身的容貌上并没有得到反映，他依然像以往那么年轻英雄。但作为艺术作品的画像，却记录他的种种劣迹，画像中的他变得难看和衰老了，说明只有艺术才能反映人的个性和思想的变化，而现实现实是做不到的。
道连·格雷本是个单纯的少年，在他的生活中，对他影响最大的是两个人：画家霍尔华德和朋友亨利勋爵。霍尔华德为艺术而生活，他在道连身上所投注的感情，转化为了他艺术的灵感，尤其表现在创作道连·格雷的画像上，使这幅画作成了他绘画生涯中难得的精品。画像是他艺术和情感的结晶，给他带来欢乐的同时，也给他造成了不少痛苦。所以他时刻关心道连，生怕他过多地受到亨利勋爵的不良影响。也正是他所作的这幅画像，引出了一连串问题，推动着小说情节的发展。而玩世不恭的亨利勋爵，是道连的“精神导师”，一个享乐主义者，有着一整套似是而非的个人主义理论，用雄辩的口才和充满智慧的警语包装起来，轻而易举地使人接受。他谆谆教导道连要充分享受生活，趁年轻的时候及时行乐，不要抵制诱惑，相反要随心所欲，去实现自已的每个幻想。道连是他的个人主义理论的试验品，所以他要时刻跟踪他，观察这种试验的效果。他之所以接近道连，还有一个深层的原因，那就是道连身上有着他所珍视而又缺乏的东西：青春。道连在亨利的“教导”下，个性由单纯变为世故，灵魂由纯洁转为污秽，最后走向自身的毁灭。道连、霍尔华德和亨利三个人物，通过性格上的互补和依赖，紧密地联系在一起，成了小说结构内在的黏合剂。 本书是一部内涵非常丰富的小说，要充分地挖掘综，对读者来说是一个挑战，正是因为如此，它也就更富有吸引力。

Edited with an Introduction by Ian Small.

The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde includes the two definitive story collections The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888) and A House of Pomegranates (1891).
This volume collects exquisite and poignant tales of true beauty, selfless love, generosity, loyalty, brilliant wit, and moral aestheticism, such as "The Birthday of the Infanta," "The Selfish Giant," The Nightingale and the Rose," and "The Happy Prince," among others.
A true classic of wonder for all ages.

Book Description
This volume of Poems and Poems in Prose inaugurates the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, which will for the first time provide students of Wilde with scholarly and textually accurate texts of his complete oeuvre. In it, Bobby Fong and Karl Beckson provide reliable texts of all Wilde's poems and poems in prose, including 21 never published in his lifetime, together with information on the locations of extant manuscripts; bibliogaphical details of each poem's publishing history; commentaries that identify and clarify contexts and allusions to figures and events; and emendations and variant readings, in manuscripts and printed editions, which illuminate Wilde's craftsmanship in revising. The variety of poetic forms in Wilde's 199 poemsDSfrom his earliest known verse, written while a student at Oxford, to his final masterpiece, The Ballad of Reading GaolDSreveals a versatility and accomplishment that previously has often been overlooked. Many of the poems, most of which were written before Wilde achieved fame, express themes developed in his later work in prose and drama, pointing to a continuity now perceived by critics. This new edition includes an informative introduction by Ian Small, one of the general editors of the Complete Works, which provides the historical context for an understanding of Wilde's career, information about the conditions surrounding the publication of his poetry, and insight into the current resurgence of scholarly interest in the man and his writing. Publication of the Complete Works will confirm Wilde's centrality in the development of early Modernism towards the end of the nineteenth century.
About Author
Born in Ireland in 1856, Oscar Wilde was a noted essayist, playwright, fairy tale writer and poet, as well as an early leader of the Aesthetic Movement. His plays include: An Ideal Husband, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, and Lady Windermere's Fan. Among his best known stories are The Picture of Dorian Gray and The Canterville Ghost.
Book Dimension :
length: (cm)23.2 　　　 　　　　　 　　　　　 width:(cm)15.2