This new edition, edited by Holland (The Wilde Album, 1998) and published on the centennial of Wilde’s death, incorporates both revisions and lucid, if generally dry, introductions to each of his genres, offering an opportunity, for those who fondly remember The Importance of Being Ernest or The Ballad of Reading Gaol, to sample more of this writer’s prodigious output. Paper 0-00-472383-X Almost from the moment of his death in1900, Oscar Wilde’s astonishingly large and diverse body of work has been dismissed by a succession of critics as mediocre, distinguished only by-in the words of the Times Literary Supplement-one perfect play, one memorable poem, and -De Profundis.- This hefty gathering of his plays, stories, poems, essays, and criticism has been continuously in print in England since 1948, suggesting that a persistent body of readers feels otherwise.
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