The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde
Title | The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde PDF eBook |
Author | Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | Courier Corporation |
Pages | 210 |
Release | 2012-04-19 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0486121860 |
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 Portrait of Mr. W. H."
The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde
Title | The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde PDF eBook |
Author | Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 337 |
Release | 2020-11-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 0674248678 |
An innovative new edition of nine classic short stories from one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era. “I cannot think other than in stories,” Oscar Wilde once confessed to his friend André Gide. In this new selection of his short fiction, Wilde’s gifts as a storyteller are on full display, accompanied by informative facing-page annotations from Wilde biographer and scholar Nicholas Frankel. A wide-ranging introduction brings readers into the world from which the author drew inspiration. Each story in the collection brims with Wilde’s trademark wit, style, and sharp social criticism. Many are reputed to have been written for children, although Wilde insisted this was not true and that his stories would appeal to all “those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.” “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” stands alongside Wilde’s comic masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest, while other stories—including “The Happy Prince,” the tale of a young ruler who had never known sorrow, and “The Nightingale and the Rose,” the story of a nightingale who sacrifices herself for true love—embrace the theme of tragic, forbidden love and are driven by an undercurrent of seriousness, even despair, at the repressive social and sexual values of Wilde’s day. Like his later writings, Wilde’s stories are a sweeping indictment of the society that would imprison him for his homosexuality in 1895, five years before his death at the age of forty-six. Published here in the form in which Victorian readers first encountered them, Wilde’s short stories contain much that appeals to modern readers of vastly different ages and temperaments. They are the perfect distillation of one of the Victorian era’s most remarkable writers.
Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde
Title | Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde PDF eBook |
Author | Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | |
Pages | 188 |
Release | 1911 |
Genre | English poetry |
ISBN |
The Complete Shorter Fiction of Oscar Wilde
Title | The Complete Shorter Fiction of Oscar Wilde PDF eBook |
Author | Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 290 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN |
Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde
Title | Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde PDF eBook |
Author | Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | Penguin |
Pages | 242 |
Release | 2008-10-07 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780451531070 |
The master of wit and irony Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales, as Oscar Wilde himself explained, were written “partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.”
Complete Short Fiction
Title | Complete Short Fiction PDF eBook |
Author | Oscar Wilde |
Publisher | Penguin Classics |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2003-04-29 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9780141439693 |
The complete short stories of the masterful Irish writer 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. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. 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.
Oscar Wilde's Short Stories
Title | Oscar Wilde's Short Stories PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2007 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783526520917 |