This is an auction for THE COMPLETE WORKS OF OSCAR WILDE.

From Wikipedia:

"Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. At university Wilde read Greats, and proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. After university Wilde moved to London, into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress, and glittering conversation, Wilde had become one of the major personalities of his day. Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London. At the height of his fame and success, whilst his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), was still on stage in London, Wilde sued his lover's father for libel. After a series of trials, Wilde was convicted of gross indecency with other men and imprisoned for two years. In prison he wrote De Profundis, a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials. Upon his release he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. He died destitute in Paris at the age of forty-six..."

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Hardback 1987.

1114 pages.

Good condition.

The cost of shipping is:

• North Island - $8.95
• North Island Rural Delivery - $11.95
• South Island - $13.95
• South Island Rural Delivery - $16.95

There is of course no charge for shipping if you collect this book from my shop in Palmerston North following the auction.

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