Oscar Wilde: Complete Short Fiction

Brand: Penguin Classics | Status: Còn hàng

350.000₫

If you’re an adult, this will be a page turner filled with wit, melancholy, reflections of real life, all leading to a great moral lesson. On the other hand, if you are young— or even better yet, if you have children, these will be the perfect bed time stories. A setting of fantasy, personified inanimate beings, talking animals, giants..etc, all of which will engage both the adult and young minds, and with the same moral lessons which you would like your children to live by. - Amazon Reviewer

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The complete short stories of the masterful Irish writer

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.

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