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The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde - An Annotated Selection (Hardcover)
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The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde - An Annotated Selection (Hardcover)
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An innovative new edition of nine classic short stories from one of
the greatest writers of the Victorian era. “I cannot think other
than in stories,” Oscar Wilde once confessed to his friend André
Gide. In this new selection of his short fiction, Wilde’s gifts
as a storyteller are on full display, accompanied by informative
facing-page annotations from Wilde biographer and scholar Nicholas
Frankel. A wide-ranging introduction brings readers into the world
from which the author drew inspiration. Each story in the
collection brims with Wilde’s trademark wit, style, and sharp
social criticism. Many are reputed to have been written for
children, although Wilde insisted this was not true and that his
stories would appeal to all “those who have kept the childlike
faculties of wonder and joy.” “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime”
stands alongside Wilde’s comic masterpiece The Importance of
Being Earnest, while other stories—including “The Happy
Prince,” the tale of a young ruler who had never known sorrow,
and “The Nightingale and the Rose,” the story of a nightingale
who sacrifices herself for true love—embrace the theme of tragic,
forbidden love and are driven by an undercurrent of seriousness,
even despair, at the repressive social and sexual values of
Wilde’s day. Like his later writings, Wilde’s stories are a
sweeping indictment of the society that would imprison him for his
homosexuality in 1895, five years before his death at the age of
forty-six. Published here in the form in which Victorian readers
first encountered them, Wilde’s short stories contain much that
appeals to modern readers of vastly different ages and
temperaments. They are the perfect distillation of one of the
Victorian era’s most remarkable writers.
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