Buch Details
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.
- Einband Taschenformat
- Autor/in Oscar Wilde
- ISBN13 9780141439693
- ISBN10 0141439696
- Buchseiten 280
- Jahr der Ausgabe 2003
- Fecha de publicación 29/04/2003
- Sprache Englisch
- Sammlung Penguin Black Classics
Rezensionen und Bewertungen
Complete Short Fiction (Englisch)
- Von
- Oscar Wilde
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- PENGUIN BOOKS (2003)
- 9780141439693



