The Picture of Dorian Gray. Novel. Stories. Tales. Poems. Essays

Oscar Wilde — a great English writer, a brilliant stylist, an unparalleled wit, an extraordinary personality of his time. A man whose name, due to the efforts of enemies and the gossip-hungry mob, became a symbol of depravity, but over time gained immortal glory. This edition collects works that reflect various facets of the writer's artistic world: the famous novel «The Picture of Dorian Gray», which upon its publication gained scandalous fame, and was later recognized as a masterpiece of European aestheticism; all of Wilde's stories, tales, and fables (among them «The Canterville Ghost», «The Canterville Ghost», «The Happy Prince», «The Nightingale and the Rose», and others); plays full of refined, concise symbolism; the famous prison confession «De Profundis»; essays from the cycle «Intentions», which serve as an elaborate aesthetic program of the writer and can act as a kind of self-commentary on his artistic works; as well as two famous poems — «The Sphinx» and «The Ballad of Reading Gaol» translated by Nikolai Gumilev and Konstantin Balmont.