Continuously in print since 1948, Collins Complete Works of Oscar Wilde has long been established as the most comprehensive and authoritative single-volume collection of Wilde's writing. It includes his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays, and letters-all in their most authoritative texts. This new illustrated centenary edition also incorporates recent revisions to the text of his poetic masterpiece, "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," as well as introductions by Merlin Holland (Wilde's grandson), Owen Dudley Edwards, Declan Kiberd, and Terence Brown. Completing this handsome new edition are a comprehensive bibliography and a chronology of Oscar Wilde's life and work.