The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde. Garden City: Doubleday, Page & Co., [1923].
Patron's Edition De Luxe (this set personalized to Reba L. Thompson). Personalized page with a profile portrait of Wilde.
Twelve octavo volumes. Publisher's textured grey leatherette over bluish-green paper boards, printed paper spine labels. Some wear to spines, some foxing to boards. A good set.
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was one of the most successful and famous writers of his day. He is best known as a playwright, having written The Importance of Being Earnest, An Ideal Husband, and Lady Windermere’s Fan. However, he also wrote poetry (Ballad of Reading Gaol among others) and various prose works (Picture of Dorian Gray being his only novel). Due to his incredible talent, wit, and tribulations (he was jailed for sodomy) he is still an iconic and important figure today.
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