Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. 'Wilde did not converse - he told tales.' Extensive and helpful Explanatory Notes.H.' that holds an important key to the meaning of the short story. Appendix containing an important passage from the book-length version of 'The Portrait of Mr.Useful and up-to-date Select Bibliography.Detailed and informative Note on the Text.Engaging and informative Introduction by John Sloan.Includes a useful and up-to-date bibliography and extensive and helpful explanatory notes.The Introduction argues for Wilde's originality and literary achievement as a short-story writer, emphasizing his literary skill, and discussing the periodicals in which they first appeared, their intended readership, and their enduring value.H.' on the Neo-Platonic ideal of friendship between men, an important key to the short story's meaning. An Appendix reprints an important passage from the book-length version of 'The Portrait of Mr W.H.', about the mysterious dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets. Includes best-loved stories such as 'The Happy Prince', 'The Selfish Giant', and 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' as well as the innovative 'Portrait of Mr W.Oscar Wilde's shorter fiction includes memorable fairy-tales, witty comedies, and daring narrative experiments: all are contained in this enchanting collection.

Oxford Research Encyclopedias: Global Public HealthĮdited by John Sloan Oxford World's Classics.The European Society of Cardiology Series.Oxford Commentaries on International Law.Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. These small masterpieces convey the brilliance of Wilde's vision, exploring complex moral issues through an elegant juxtaposition of wit and sentiment.įor more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. 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. The complete short stories of the masterful Irish writerįairy 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.

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