Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde
1914
Robert Ross's 1914 selection from across Wilde's prose, cut into short extracts and given titles of its own. Fifty-seven pieces draw on the criticism, the letters, the fairy tales, Dorian Gray, Salome and De Profundis.
- Dedication
- Preface
- How They Struck a Contemporary
- The Quality of George Meredith
- Life the Fallacious Model
- Life the Disciple
- Life the Plagiarist
- The Indispensable East
- The Influence of the Impressionists on Climate
- An Exposure of Naturalism
- Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
- Wainewright at Hobart Town
- Cardinal Newman and the Autobiographers
- Robert Browning
- The Two Supreme and Highest Arts
- The Secrets of Immortality
- The Critic and His Material
- Dante the Living Guide
- The Limitations of Genius
- Wanted a New Background
- Without Frontiers
- The Poetry of Archæology
- The Art of Archæology
- Herod Suppliant
- The Tetrarch’s Remorse
- The Tetrarch’s Treasure
- Salomé Anticipates Dr. Strauss
- The Young King
- A Coronation
- The King of Spain
- A Bull Fight
- The Throne Room
- A Protected Country
- The Blackmailing of the Emperor
- Covent Garden
- A Letter from Miss Jane Percy to Her Aunt
- The Triumph of American ‘Humor’
- The Garden of Death
- An Eton Kit-Cat
- Mrs. Erlynne Exercises the Prerogative of a Grandmother
- Motherhood More Than Marriage
- The Damnable Ideal
- From a Rejected Prize-Essay
- The Possibilities of the Useful
- The Artist
- The Doer of Good
- The Disciple
- The Master
- The House of Judgment
- The Teacher of Wisdom
- Wilde Gives Directions About ‘De Profundis’
- Carey Street
- Sorrow Wears No Mask
- Vita Nuova
- The Grand Romantic
- Clapham Junction
- The Broken Resolution
- Domesticity at Berneval
- A Visit to the Pope