Oscar Wilde Complete Shorter Fiction - Oxford World's Classics

Oscar Wilde

Oxford University Press

1998

282 páginas

9h 24m

ISBN-13: 9780192833761

Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Isobel Murray

I can not think otherwise than in stories.

By all accounts the stories we know today represent only a fraction of those with which Oscar Wilde enchanted his listeners. Now for the first time in one volume we have a complete collection of all the short fiction he published, and it clearly shows his versatility and skill as a storyteller, too often overshadowed by his reputation as dramatist, critical theorist, and novelist.
This edition includes such well-known fairy-tales as 'The Happy Prince', 'The Young King', and 'The Fisherman and his Soul'; witty social and literary parody in 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' and in Wilde's identification of the mysterious dedicatee of Shakespeare's Sonnets; and some of the parables he most characteristically delivered, which he called 'Poems in Prose'.