Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Oscar Wilde

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Index of the Project Gutenberg Works of Oscar Wilde by Oscar WildeAuthor: Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900,Language: English, Class: PR: Language and Literatures: English literature, Release Date: Nov 23, 2018

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This file is not an anthology of Wilde's works but Project Gutenberg's index page for Wilde's available titles—a reference document rather than reading material. Its core value lies in gathering the list of Wilde's public-domain ebooks and their access points, helping readers and researchers quickly locate electronic texts across genres such as comedy, fiction, poetry, fairy tales, and criticism. For those familiar with how Project Gutenberg works, the index also indirectly shows how early ebook projects organized resources by single author. Because the content consists mainly of entries, links, and metadata, it is better suited as a search starting point or case material for digital humanities courses than for ordinary readers expecting continuous reading. It can be used alongside the Project Gutenberg website; note that the index itself provides no full texts and performs no textual collation.

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About the author

Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900 Author

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was an Irish writer known for his plays, fiction, fairy tales and epigrams. The collection here contains 55 of his works, including the novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (also appearing as Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray, Le portrait de Dorian Gray and Dorian Grayn muotokuva) and the fairy-tale collection The Happy Prince, and Other Tales. The Picture of Dorian Gray centres on a portrait and its subject's fate, exploring beauty, youth, morality and indulgence through polished dialogue and an aesthetic style; The Happy Prince, and Other Tales uses fairy-tale form to portray sacrifice and compassion in clear, gently ironic prose. Wilde's writing is witty and ornate, marked by paradox and epigram, and his works have long circulated in many languages. Beyond his dates, public information is limited, so no biographical details are conjectured here.