- 1Dedication — Preface
- 2How They Struck a Contemporary
- 3The Quality of George Meredith
- 4Life the Fallacious Model
- 5Life the Disciple
- 6Life the Plagiarist
- 7The Indispensable East
- 8The Influence of the Impressionists on Climate
- 9An Exposure of Naturalism
- 10Thomas Griffiths Wainewright
- 11Wainewright at Hobart Town
- 12Cardinal Newman and the Autobiographers
- 13Robert Browning
- 14The Two Supreme and Highest Arts
- 15The Secrets of Immortality
- 16The Critic and His Material
- 17Dante the Living Guide
- 18The Limitations of Genius
- 19Wanted a New Background
- 20Without Frontiers
- 21The Poetry of Archæology
- 22The Art of Archæology
- 23Herod Suppliant
- 24The Tetrarch’s Remorse
- 25The Tetrarch’s Treasure
- 26Salomé Anticipates Dr. Strauss
- 27The Young King
- 28A Coronation
- 29The King of Spain
- 30A Bull Fight
- 31The Throne Room
- 32A Protected Country
- 33The Blackmailing of the Emperor
- 34Covent Garden
- 35A Letter From Miss Jane Percy to Her Aunt
- 36The Triumph of American ‘Humor’
- 37The Garden of Death
- 38An Eton Kit-Cat
- 39Mrs. Erlynne Exercises the Prerogative of a Grandmother
- 40Motherhood More Than Marriage
- 41The Damnable Ideal
- 42From a Rejected Prize-Essay
- 43The Possibilities of the Useful
- 44The Artist
- 45The Doer of Good
- 46The Disciple
- 47The Master
- 48The House of Judgment
- 49The Teacher of Wisdom
- 50Wilde Gives Directions About ‘de Profundis’
- 51Carey Street
- 52Sorrow Wears No Mask
- 53Vita Nuova
- 54The Grand Romantic
- 55Clapham Junction
- 56The Broken Resolution
- 57Domesticity at Berneval
- 58A Visit to the Pope
Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde
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