Oscar Wilde: Complete Shorter Fiction (World's Classics)
Books / Paperback
ISBN: 0192815008 / Publisher: Oxford University Press, August 1982
The dramatist, critical theorist, and novelist displays his versatility and skill as a storyteller in this collection of short stories, fairy tales, and poems in prose
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For the first time in one volume, this complete collection of all the short fiction Oscar Wilde published contains such social and literary parodies as "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" and "The Canterville Ghost;" such well-known fairy tales as "The Happy Prince," "The Young King," and "The Fisherman and his Soul;" an imaginary portrait of the dedicatee of Shakespeare's Sonnets entitled "The Portrait of Mr. W.H.;" and the parables Wilde referred to as "Poems in Prose," including "The Artist," "The House of Judgment," and "The Teacher of Wisdom."
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