Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde was a celebrated 19th century playwright, poet, and writer; he is also famous for having been prosecuted and imprisoned for homosexual acts. As with many other Victorian-era English writers, he included the gothic, the macabre, and ghost stories in his work.

Selected bibliography

• The Canterville Ghost (1887; ghost story parody)
• The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888; fairy tale collections)
• The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891 novel)
• Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891 collection of mysteries)
• A House of Pomegranates (1891; fairy tale collection)
• Salomé (1893 French version; 1894 translation by Lord Alfred Douglas with illustrations by Aubrey Beardsley)

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