I am Indestructible! Selected Interviews with Oscar Wilde

Edited by Rob Marland

I am Indestructible! Selected Interviews with Oscar Wilde is available for purchase in hardcover and paperback (20 April 2026).

Hardcover ISBN 9783982413488 (RRP £20/$27/€23); paperback ISBN 9783982413495 (RRP £12/$16/€14).

Where can I purchase the books?

The books can be ordered from your local bookshop, or online through Amazon, Blackwell’s (UK), Barnes & Noble (USA), Bookshop.org (USA), McNally Robinson (Canada), Booktopia (Australia), and elsewhere.

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Oscar Wilde Society Summer Luncheon offer: I will be selling paperback copies of I am Indestructible! Selected Interviews with Oscar Wilde (£12) at the Oscar Wilde Society Summer Luncheon in Oxford on 6 June 2026. I will also be selling copies of my other new books Oscar Wilde’s First Tragedy (£26) and Vera; or, The Nihilists (£12) (at this event only, attendees may purchase both Vera books for the reduced price of £30), as well as my graphic novel about Wilde’s imprisonment Oscar Wilde: The Season of Sorrow (£8). If you are attending the lunch and would like to purchase any of these books, please email me at r.p.marland@gmail.com with the subject line ‘Oxford Vera’ by 15 May to reserve copies. Only reserved copies are likely to be available on the day. Please also bring cash, as I will not be able to accept electronic payments.

About I am Indestructible! Selected Interviews with Oscar Wilde

Oscar Wilde is the author of the most enduringly popular comedy of the nineteenth century, The Importance of Being Earnest, as well as sparkling philosophical dialogues, epigrammatic essays, and exquisitely crafted fairy tales.

Yet his friends insisted that even the best of his writing was but a pale reflection of his brilliant conversation. For Wilde, talk was ‘the only proper intoxication’ and ‘among the supreme aims of life’. He devoted his talent to his writing and reserved his genius for his conversation.

Newspaper interviewers, realising that Wilde’s talk was an excellent source of copy, repeatedly sought out the author for his ‘Oscarisms’ – his trademark witty phrases – as well as his views on topics ranging from poetry to politics, and acting to architecture. They found him not only at his London home, but in hotel rooms from Paris to San Francisco, strolling down Broadway or St James’s Street, lounging in train carriages, and behind the walls of Reading Gaol.

This collection includes sixty-four of Wilde’s best interviews, selected by the editor of Oscar Wilde: The Complete Interviews (2022). Several of the interviews were rediscovered after the publication of The Complete Interviews.

About Rob Marland

Rob Marland is the editor of Oscar Wilde: The Complete Interviews (2022) and the author of Oscar Wilde’s First Tragedy (2026). His research on Wilde has been published in The Wildean, the journal of the Oscar Wilde Society, and Notes and Queries. He is a member of the editorial board of The Wildean.