Brilliant, flamboyant and uncoventional, Oscar Wilde was one of the great figures of the 1880s and 1890s, attracting both admiration and outrage in equal measure. This exclusive edition contains Oscar Wilde's complete stories, plays and poems together with their original illustrations.
Thomas De Quincey (1785-1859) studied at Oxford and failed to take his degree but discovered opium. He later met Coleridge, Southey, and the Wordsworths and worked as a journalist in Edinburgh.