Famed as a wit and bon viveur, Oscar Wilde lived up to his reputation. This selection of plays, poems and prose writings, introduced by Terry Eagleton, includes \"The Importance of Being Earnest\", \"Lady Windermere\'s Fan\", \"The Picture of Dorian Gray\", \"The Critic as an Artist\", Apologia\", \"The Soul of a Man Under Socialism\", \"Letter to Robert Ross\", \"Requiescat\" and \"The Ballad of Reading Goal\". Terry Eagleton is the author of \"Criticism and Ideology\", \"Marxism and Literary Criticsm\" and \"Literary Theory: An Introduction\".