The Complete Short Fiction
Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners — the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde's name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styles. Victorian moral justice is comically inverted in 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' and 'The Canterville Ghost', and society's materialism comes under sharp, humorous criticism in 'The Model Millionaire', while 'The Happy Prince' and 'The Nightingale and the Rose' are hauntingly melancholic in their magical evocations of selfless love. These small masterpieces convey the brilliance of Wilde's vision, exploring complex moral issues through an elegant juxtaposition of wit and sentiment.
- Author
- Oscar Wilde, Ian Small
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 320
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 978-0-14-143969-3
- EAN
- 9780141439693
- Release date
- 2003
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- Penguin Readers Starter Level: The Happy Prince (ELT Graded Reader)
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Penguin Readers Level 3: The Picture of Dorian Gray (ELT Graded Reader)
- The Decay of Lying
- The Canterville Ghost, The Happy Prince and Other Stories
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- The Importance of Being Earnest and Other Plays
- Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast
- The Importance of Being Earnest & Other Plays
- Lies