Description
| Product ID: | 9780141439693 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | GB |
| Title: | The Complete Short Fiction |
| Authors: | Author: Oscar Wilde, Ian Small |
| Page Count: | 320 |
| Subjects: | Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Classic fiction: general and literary, Short stories, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating 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 skill in a range of literary styles. The stories include: "The Canterville Ghost", "The Model Millionaire" and "The Happy Prince". 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Penguin Classics |
| Publisher Name: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2003-02-27 |