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The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde

By Oscar Wilde

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| Mass Market Paperback | 9780486464466

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This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant story-telling 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 PomegranatContinue

This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant story-telling 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 Crim 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 use of parady, 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, innocene and sin, altruism and greed, and honesty and deceit - offering captivating expressions of the themes that dominated Wilde's life and thought.

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    oscar wilde is so cruel. that's why i love him so much. happy prince will always be my favorite story, ever.

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    hermia said on Aug 21, 2007 about the Paperback edition | 1 feedback

  • A collection of short stories; first a few very short and simple fairy stories with a moral, then a few strange fairy tale like stories that were somewhat disturbing. "The Fisherman and his Soul" is a bit allegorical, but what the deeper meaning behind this story is, I have no idea... "The Birthday ... (continue)

    A collection of short stories; first a few very short and simple fairy stories with a moral, then a few strange fairy tale like stories that were somewhat disturbing. "The Fisherman and his Soul" is a bit allegorical, but what the deeper meaning behind this story is, I have no idea... "The Birthday of the Infanta" was a bit depressing. The later stories in this book are longer and no fairy tales. I liked "Lord Arthur Saville's Crime" and "The Canterville Ghost" well enough, because of the sarcastic humor and irony. The early fairy tales in the beginning were also alright. In short, this is a collection with many different short stories, not exactly meant for children.

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    Voronda said on Sep 22, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Including stories that everyone has heard of in childhood, yet it is not simply a book of fairy tales, it tells moral, money, religion and aspects that were valued in Wilde's times.

    I like "Lord Athur Savile's Crime" the most, because it tells the paradox of fate. Is it men who control fate or ... (continue)

    Including stories that everyone has heard of in childhood, yet it is not simply a book of fairy tales, it tells moral, money, religion and aspects that were valued in Wilde's times.

    I like "Lord Athur Savile's Crime" the most, because it tells the paradox of fate. Is it men who control fate or the other way round? A question that lies deeply in my mind after reading the story...

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    Clio said on Jun 12, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

  • Oscar Wilde Complete Short Fiction

    Oscar Wilde was undoubtedly one of the best English writers in history and whose wit and proficiency is an indispensible treasure for English readers around the world.

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    秋盈 said on Dec 14, 2007 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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  • English Books
  • Mass Market Paperback 196 Pages
  • ISBN-10: 0486464466
  • ISBN-13: 9780486464466
  • Publisher: Dover Classics
  • Pub date: Jan 01, 2006
  • Also available as: Paperback, Hardcover, Others and eBook
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