The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde

    The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde

    By Oscar Wilde

    $9.95

    Publication Date: 8th September 2006

    This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective yarns and comedies of manners. It includes the complete texts of "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories," "Poems in Prose,"and the critical essay "The Portrait of Mr. W. H."
    Originally published in the late 1880s and early 1890s, these tales predate Wilde's fame as a dramatist. When he wrote them, he was best known among fashionabl... Read More
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    This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective yarns and comedies of manners. It includes the complete texts of "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories," "Poems in Prose,"and the critical essay "The Portrait of Mr. W. H."
    Originally published in the late 1880s and early 1890s, these tales predate Wilde's fame as a dramatist. When he wrote them, he was best known among fashionabl... Read More
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    This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective yarns and comedies of manners. It includes the complete texts of "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories," "Poems in Prose,"and the critical essay "The Portrait of Mr. W. H."
    Originally published in the late 1880s and early 1890s, these tales predate Wilde's fame as a dramatist. When he wrote them, he was best known among fashionable London society as a drawing-room raconteur. Many of the character types now familiar from his comedies first emerged in these stories, along with his gifted uses of parody, melodrama, paradox, and irony. Even more significantly, they reflect the author's preoccupation with opposites — idealistic love and desire, art and life, sincerity and artifice, innocence and sin, altruism and greed, and honesty and deceit — offering captivating expressions of the themes that dominated Wilde's life and thought.

    Reprint of standard editions.
    Details
    • Price: $9.95
    • Pages: 208
    • Publisher: Dover Publications
    • Imprint: Dover Publications
    • Series: Dover Literature: Short Stories
    • Publication Date: 8th September 2006
    • Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
    • Illustration Note: 0
    • ISBN: 9780486452166
    • Format: Paperback
    • BISACs:
      FICTION / Classics
    Author Bio

    Poet and playwright Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) remains best known for his comedies of the 1890s, including The Importance of Being Earnest, and for his tragic imprisonment and untimely death.

    Table of Contents
    The Happy Prince and Other Tales
    The Happy Prince
    The Nightingale and the Rose
    The Selfish Giant
    The Devoted Friend
    The Remarkable Rocket
    The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
    A House of Pomegranates
    The Young King
    The Birthday of the Infanta
    The Fisherman and his Soul
    The Star-Child
    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
    The Sphinx Without a Secret
    The Canterville Ghost
    The Model Millionaire
    Poems in Prose
    The Artist
    The Doer of Good
    The Disciple
    The Master
    The House of Judgment
    The Teacher of Wisdom
    This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective yarns and comedies of manners. It includes the complete texts of "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories," "Poems in Prose,"and the critical essay "The Portrait of Mr. W. H."
    Originally published in the late 1880s and early 1890s, these tales predate Wilde's fame as a dramatist. When he wrote them, he was best known among fashionable London society as a drawing-room raconteur. Many of the character types now familiar from his comedies first emerged in these stories, along with his gifted uses of parody, melodrama, paradox, and irony. Even more significantly, they reflect the author's preoccupation with opposites — idealistic love and desire, art and life, sincerity and artifice, innocence and sin, altruism and greed, and honesty and deceit — offering captivating expressions of the themes that dominated Wilde's life and thought.

    Reprint of standard editions.
    • Price: $9.95
    • Pages: 208
    • Publisher: Dover Publications
    • Imprint: Dover Publications
    • Series: Dover Literature: Short Stories
    • Publication Date: 8th September 2006
    • Trim Size: 5 x 8 in
    • Illustrations Note: 0
    • ISBN: 9780486452166
    • Format: Paperback
    • BISACs:
      FICTION / Classics

    Poet and playwright Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) remains best known for his comedies of the 1890s, including The Importance of Being Earnest, and for his tragic imprisonment and untimely death.

    The Happy Prince and Other Tales
    The Happy Prince
    The Nightingale and the Rose
    The Selfish Giant
    The Devoted Friend
    The Remarkable Rocket
    The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
    A House of Pomegranates
    The Young King
    The Birthday of the Infanta
    The Fisherman and his Soul
    The Star-Child
    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
    Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
    The Sphinx Without a Secret
    The Canterville Ghost
    The Model Millionaire
    Poems in Prose
    The Artist
    The Doer of Good
    The Disciple
    The Master
    The House of Judgment
    The Teacher of Wisdom