The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde - Brossura

Wilde, Oscar

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0486452166 ISBN 13: 9780486452166

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2006

Riassunto

This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective yarns and comedies of manners. It includes the complete texts of "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories," "Poems in Prose,"and the critical essay "The Portrait of Mr. W. H."
Originally published in the late 1880s and early 1890s, these tales predate Wilde's fame as a dramatist. When he wrote them, he was best known among fashionable London society as a drawing-room raconteur. Many of the character types now familiar from his comedies first emerged in these stories, along with his gifted uses of parody, melodrama, paradox, and irony. Even more significantly, they reflect the author's preoccupation with opposites — idealistic love and desire, art and life, sincerity and artifice, innocence and sin, altruism and greed, and honesty and deceit — offering captivating expressions of the themes that dominated Wilde's life and thought.

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L'autore:

Poet and playwright Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) remains best known for his comedies of the 1890s, including The Importance of Being Earnest, and for his tragic imprisonment and untimely death.

Contenuti:

The Happy Prince and Other Tales The Happy Prince The Nightingale and the Rose The Selfish Giant The Devoted Friend The Remarkable Rocket The Portrait of Mr. W. H. A House of Pomegranates The Young King The Birthday of the Infanta The Fisherman and his Soul The Star-Child Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories Lord Arthur Savile's Crime The Sphinx Without a Secret The Canterville Ghost The Model Millionaire Poems in Prose The Artist The Doer of Good The Disciple The Master The House of Judgment The Teacher of Wisdom

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0486452166
• ISBN 13: 9780486452166
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 196