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Complete Short Fiction

Complete Short Fiction

Wilde, Oscar
Small, Ian

Paperback

Classic FictionGeneral FictionLiterary Fiction

Publisher Price: $16.00

ISBN10: 0141439696
ISBN13: 9780141439693
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: Apr 29 2003
Pages: 336
Weight: 0.50
Height: 0.78 Width: 5.08 Depth: 7.77
Language: English
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.

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