Books in the Complete Works Oscar Wilde series

Provides students of Wilde with texts of Wilde's 119 poems and poems in prose, together with the publishing history of each poem, locations of manuscripts, variants and emendations, and a detailed commentary on allusions and echoes, imagery, and points of biographical interest.

Volume IV of the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the first variorum edition of Wilde's best-known critical essays - those published in Intentions and The Soul of Man, as well as his graduate essay The Rise of Historical Criticism (re-titled here Historical Criticism).

Volume VII of the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde establishes the extent and prowess of Wilde's career as a journalist, offering a complete collection of Wilde's journalistic writings between 1887 and 1895.

Volume VI of the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde establishes for the first time the extent and prowess of his early career as a journalist. This definitive collection of his reviews, features and editorials displays the unique wit and erudition for which Wilde is famous.

Reprints the thirteen-chapter and twenty-chapter versions of the famous story, "The Picture of Dorian Gray", as separate works. This volume provides readers with a detailed account of the considerable changes that Wilde made to a controversial narrative that appeared in two, very different editions in 1890 and 1891 respectively.

Presents the textual history of one of the most famous love letters ever written, "De Profundis." This work argues that Wilde's prison document may be seen not just as the basis of a letter, but also as an unfinished literary work which he intended for public consumption at some future date.

Volume V of the Oxford English Texts Complete Works of Oscar Wilde, is the first volume of plays, bringing together The Duchess of Padua, privately published in 1883 and left unpublished until now; Wilde's Salome, written and published in French in 1893; and its first English translation, by Lord Alfred Douglas, which was published in 1894 .