Londres, 1895. Oscar Wilde, accusé en public de sodomie par le marquis de Queensberry, décide de le poursuivre en diffamation. Un premier procès commence. Mais l'affaire s'envenime : le marquis prétend que l'auteur du Portrait de Dorian Gray pervertit son fils de vingt ans et le propulse, par un étrange retournement de situation, sur le banc des accusés. Un second procès a lieu et condamne l'écrivain, pour homosexualité, à deux ans de travaux forcés dans la geôle de Reading. Cet ouvrage présente pour la première fois l'intégralité d'un des plus grands procès pour moeurs de l'histoire. Au-delà du drame qui s'y joue, Oscar Wilde, par son esprit vif et ses réponses impertinentes, transforme les plaidoiries en une pièce de théâtre à la fois drôle et profonde sur l'amour, l'amitié, l'art, la morale et la littérature.

Le Procès d'Oscar Wilde

Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, but apparently it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost and his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best.

 Wilde the writer is known to us from his plays and prose fiction, yet it was in his conversation that his genius reached its summit. His talk is lost, his autobiography was never written, but his letters reveal him at his spontaneous, sparkling best.

 Of all nineteenth-century letter writers Oscar Wilde is, predictably, one of the most brilliant. Wonderfully fluent in style, the letters bear that most familiar of Wildean hallmarks - the lightest of touches for the most serious of subjects. He comments openly on his life and his work from the early years of undergraduate friendship, through his year-long lecture tour in America as a striving young 'Professor of Aesthetics', to the short period of fame and success in the early 1890s, when he corresponded with many leading political, literary and artistic figures of the time. Disgrace and imprisonment followed, but even in adversity his humour does not desert him.

 In this beautifully produced volume Merlin Holland has brought together his most revealing letters with an illuminating commentary. Together they form the closest thing we shall ever have to Wilde's own memoir.

Oscar Wilde - A Life in Letters

The Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde is the only truly complete and authoritative single-volume edition of Oscar Wilde's works.

 Continuously in print since 1948, the Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been recognised as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume collection of Wilde's texts available, containing his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters, all in their most authoritative texts.

 Also included is a comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Oscar Wilde, and a chronological table of his life and work.

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