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Oscar Wilde

The Complete Short Fiction

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The complete short stories of the masterful Irish writerFairy 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 o… Mehr

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Weitere Autoren: Small, Ian (Hrsg.) / Small, Ian (Einf.)
  • ISBN: 978-0-14-143969-3
  • EAN: 9780141439693
  • Produktnummer: 1172464
  • Verlag: Penguin Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2003
  • Seitenangabe: 320 S.
  • Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
  • Masse: H19.7 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.5 cm 238 g
  • Gewicht: 238

Über den Autor


Born in Ireland, Wilde (1854-1900) was educated in Dublin and Oxford and went on to become the leading exponent of aestheticism. His work includes plays, a novel, poetry and criticism. Imprisoned for homosexual acts, he died after his release in exile in Paris.Ian Small is a reader in English Literature at the University of Birmingham.

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