Reading Wilde, Querying Spaces: An Exhibition Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of the Trials of Oscar Wilde - An exhibition and catalogue of essays featuring first editions, autograph letters, photographs, periodicals, and ephemera from the Fales Collection of English and American Fiction. The exhibit is grouped according to ten themes of interest in the life and work of Oscar Wilde. (New York University).

Oscar Wilde: An Overview - A Wilde biography, a listing of on-line Wilde works, and explorations of the themes, settings and philosophy of the Aesthetic and Decadent movement(s) of late 19th century England are provided by the invaluable Victorian Web. (Brown University) 

Oscariana - A delightful web site that features "The Life and Times of Oscar Wilde", a pastiche of quotes, anecdotes, personal letters, official documents, observations and commentary from a variety of sources. Don't miss the "Oscar Wilde Random Quote Generator". Hint: Keep hitting your "Reload" button to generate the quotes.

The Wild Wilde Web - A handy guide to Wilde and his works, this site contains a biography, a collection of Wilde wit, a very comprehensive bibliography of works about Wilde, a not-so-comprehensive listing of works by Wilde, and a short but entertaining collection of comments on Wilde. (Anomalous Research Technologies)

Wilde - The Samuelson Entertainment/Dove International/NDF International/Pony Canyon/Pandora Films/Capitol Films/BBC motion picture of the life of Oscar Wilde. A beautifully designed site that includes readings of Wilde's works by actor Stephen Fry, a Wilde quiz, and insights from the film's producers, screenwriter, director, and cast.

Photographs of Oscar Wilde - Photographs of Wilde from youth to adulthood from the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, repository of the most comprehensive collection of materials by and relating to Oscar Wilde in the world. (UCLA Libraries)

Oscar Wilde "The Modern Messiah" - An account of Wilde's visit to San Francisco in 1882 that includes a nasty cartoon from the San Francisco Wasp. Be sure to read the San Francisco Chronicle's review of Wilde's lecture on "Art Decoration" and local humorist Ambrose Bierce's denunciation of Wilde. (Museum of the City of San Francisco) 

Oscar Wilde: The Spectacle of Criticism - Cornell University English professor Sandra F. Siegel examines and compares public perceptions of the Wilde "legend" with the facts. (Arts & Sciences Newsletter, Spring 1996 Vol. 17 No. 2) 

Oscar Wilde's 1895 Martyrdom - An examination of the events leading up to Wilde's self-destructive libel suit and the trials, sentencing and imprisonment that followed.

Oscar Wilde's Lasting Significance - An interesting essay sparked by the success of Gross Indecency that looks at Wilde and his works through socialist tinted glasses. (Socialist Equality Party)

Oscar Wilde - Encyclopedia Britannica biography (Playwrights 1500 - 1900 A.D. Compiled by Dan Maccarone)

The Importance of Being Oscar - A good biography of Wilde with a link to a list of all his published works. (Buckingham Gate)

Oscar Wilde - Yet another good biography... (Lennart Hildeman)

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) - A biography of Oscar Wilde with a photograph of his tombstone in Cimetière du Père Lachaise, located in the eastern arrondissement (civil district) 20 of Paris. (WorldWide Cemetery)

The Transfer of Oscar Wilde's Remains - Another view of Wilde's tomb with an account of the transfer of his remains from his first interment in Bagneaux Cemetery to Père Lachaise. (The Page of the Dead)

Monty Python's Oscar Wilde Sketch - A classic! Oscar would have approved. (John G. Wright)

Oscar Wilde Magazine - Details about subscriptions and contributions to Where the Bluebird Sings, a privately printed, privately distributed, bimonthly magazine dedicated to celebrating Oscar Wilde and his world. (H-Albion posting, Oct. 11, 1995)

Oscar Wilde - Somehow, Wilde must have authorized this "official site of Oscar Wilde". How did he do that? CMG Worldwide is a company that represents the estates of deceased celebrities. Does CMG conduct seances in front of a never-aging portrait of Oscar in their attic? In any case, the site seems to be under construction as only the "Career Highlights" page is completed. (CMG Worldwide)

The Picture of Dorian Gray - The on-line hypertext edition of The Picture of Dorian Gray. Wilde's novella is possibly the best literary treatment of the "Life imitates art" motif in modern fiction. Somehow, Oscar manged to work in at least two epigrams (aphorisms? bon mots? one-liners?) per page! (R. van Valkenburg) 

The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Both complete and short versions of Wilde's epic poem published shortly after his release from a two-year prison sentence in 1897. (Bibliomania)

Poems by Oscar Wilde - The Bartleby Archive's on-line edition of Wilde's 1881 collection. (Columbia University)

Oscar Wilde: The Complete Shorter Fiction & Poems in Prose - Both HTML and PDF (Adobe Acrobat Reader) formatted versions are supplied. (Bibliomania)

The Oscar Wilde Collection - Very well-formatted and on-line-readable editions of Wilde works. (Russell Taylor)

Wilde Fairy Tales - "Tales so beautiful they made even Oscar Wilde himself weep". An illustrated on-line collection including "About Oscar Wilde", the afterword by Jack Zipes to The Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde. (Backdoor)

The Importance of Being Earnest - Online edition of Wilde's final and most lasting play. Be sure to check out the "Synopsis/Analysis" page. (Jerry Stratton, for FireBlade Publications) 

Search The Importance of Being Earnest - Search the text of the play by word, character, dialogue string, etc. A valuable tool connected to a text file of the complete play. (Iowa State University) 

Salome - This online edition of the "decadent" hit play includes an Aubrey Beardsley illustration from the original manuscript. (Infomaniak)

A Woman of No Importance - Three Internet sources of text and zipped files of another hit play. (Project Gutenberg)

Oscar Wilde - This site is apparently under construction, but the three main collections of Wilde quotes are available: the preface to The Picture of Dorian Gray [1891], A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated [1894], and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young [1894] (The Chemical World)

E-texts by Oscar Wilde - Project Gutenberg's index to its collection of both text and "zipped" files of Wilde's works. (Project Gutenberg)

Books On-line, with Author Term "wilde" - A collection of links from CMU's search engine that references some of the above works plus a few more - including one by Oscar's mother. (Carnegie Mellon University)

Yahoo! search results, with entry "Oscar Wilde" - Oscar Wilde sites registered with the Yahoo! directory.