Complete Short Fiction
Complete Short Fiction by Oscar Wilde is a comprehensive collection published by Penguin Books in 1994, featuring 288 pages in English. This volume brings together Wilde’s early masterpieces that established his reputation as a fiction writer, including the complete texts of The Happy Prince and Other Tales, A House of Pomegranates, and Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories, along with his six Poems in Prose and ‘The Portrait of Mr W.H.’
Readers will encounter a diverse range of narratives, including fairy tales, ghost stories, and comedies of manners, showcasing Wilde’s innovative approach to storytelling. The collection highlights his ability to subvert late-Victorian expectations while experimenting with melodrama and parody. Through these works, Wilde presents a unique blend of vision, paradox, and wit, reflecting his distinctive literary style and thematic explorations in fiction.
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This volume collects together the masterpieces that appeared during Wilde’s earliest revolutions as an artist, the stories which first made his name as a writer of fiction. It includes the complete texts of The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888), A House of Pomegranates (1891) and Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories (1891), together with his six Poems in Prose and ‘The Portrait of Mr W.H.’, inspired by ‘the onlie Begetter’ of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, loved by Wilde ‘as one should love all things, not wisely but too well’. Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction, comedies of manners – these stories find Wilde at work subverting late-Victorian expectations and trying out his own distinctive forms of melodrama and parody. They defy our modern expectations too in the brilliance of their vision and paradox and in the audacity of their wit.
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