The Sphinx
Oscar Wilde
A long decadent poem addressed to a stone sphinx, dense with exotic imagery and deliberately excessive. Wilde worked on it for years.
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- De Profundis
The long letter Wilde wrote from his prison cell, part accusation and part reckoning with his own life. The most personal thing he ever wrote.
Verified PDF · Secure download - Intentions
Four critical essays, including The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist, where Wilde sets out the case that art owes nothing to nature or morality. This is where the aesthetic theory lives.
Verified PDF · Secure download - The Soul of Man Under Socialism
Wilde's political essay, arguing that socialism matters because it would free people to become individuals rather than workers. Short, provocative, and still argued over.
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Wilde's account of the lecture tour he made across America in 1882, from mining towns to lecture halls. Sharp, funny, and full of the one liners he was already famous for.
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