Best of Oscar Wilde | Wordsworth Classics | Softcover Books Oscar Wilde was an Irish playwright, poet and novelist who became one of London’s most popular playwrights in the early 1890’s and was one of the greatest celebrities of his time. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his multiple plays, as well as the circumstances surrounding his imprisonment and untimely death. This collection contains: De Profundis; Picture of Dorian Gray; Plays of Wilde