Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde (First Collected Edition 1948, Reprinted 2001)

The Collins edition of The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognised as the most comprehensive one-volume collection of Oscar Wild's work available. The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde contains his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Fray, all his stories, plays and poems, and a substantial number of his essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts. The Complete works was the first one-volume edition to include 'The Portrait of Mr W.H.' in which Wilde expanded his theory concerning the mystery of Shakespeare's Sonnets, and also 'A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated" a series of aphorisms typical of Wilde. It carries too, an Introduction specially written by the late Vyvay Holland, Oscar Wilde's son.