Oscar Wilde

Selected Prose

Table of Contents

• Project Gutenberg Impressum and Copyright Notice

• Preface by Robert Ross
• How They Struck a Contemporary
• The Quality of George Meredith
• Life in the Fallacious Model
• Life the Disciple
• Life the Plagiarist
• The Indispensable East
• The Influence of the Impressionists on Climate
• An Exposure to Naturalism
• Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
• Wainewright at Hobart Town
• Cardinal Newman and the Autobiographiers
• 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 Archaeology
• The Art of Archaeology
• Herod Suppliant
• The Tetrarch's Remorse
• The Tetrarch's Treasure
• Salome 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