Complete Short Fiction (Penguin Classics S.)

by Oscar Wilde (Author), Ian Small (Author)

• Used

  Paperback
  1994

  $4.19

  This volume presents together all of Wilde's short stories and poems in prose, from the well-known fairy tales, such as The Happy Prince and The Fisherman and His Soul to the social parody of Lord Arthur Saville's Crime and The Canterville Ghost.

• New

  Paperback
  2003

  $10.83

  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.