Selected Works
- Poems (1881)
- The Happy Prince and Other Stories (1888, fairy stories)
- Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891, stories)
- House of Pomegranates (1891, fairy stories)
- Intentions (1891, essays and dialogues on aesthetics)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray (first published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine July 1890, in book form in 1891; novel)
- The Soul of Man under Socialism (1891, political essay)
- Lady Windermere's Fan (1892, play)
- A Woman of No Importance (1893, play)
- An Ideal Husband (performed 1895, published 1898; play)
- The Importance of Being Earnest (performed 1895, published 1898; play)
- De Profundis (written 1897, published variously 1905, 1908, 1949, 1962; epistle)
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898, poem)
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