The three-volume Collected Works of the English writer Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) is the most complete published in Russian. A famous esthete and dandy of the end of the last century, who amused everyone with his extravagance and admired his paradoxes, a man who pursued beauty and sensual pleasures, but in the end knew humiliation and prison, Wilde became a symbolic figure for the decadence of the late 19th century. The fairy tale “Boy Star” " was published in Wilde's second collection of tales, The House of Pomegranates, in 1891, with a general dedication to his wife by Constance Mary Wilde.

Oscar Wilde. Collected works in three volumes. Volume 1. Publishing house "Terra". Moscow. 2000.

Fragments of drawings by O. Beardsley are used on the dust jacket. Translation by T. Ozerskaya.