The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde

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The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde gathers the full range of Wilde's brief fiction, from the luminous moral fairy tales of The Happy Prince and A House of Pomegranates to the urbane social satires of Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and the speculative literary intrigue of The Portrait of Mr. W. H. Written in a style of epigrammatic brilliance, sensuous description, and theatrical irony, these stories stand at the heart of late-Victorian aestheticism while also exposing its ethical tensions. Oscar Wilde, Irish playwright, critic, poet, and celebrated wit, brought to prose fiction the same dazzling intelligence that shaped his drama and essays. His devotion to beauty, paradox, and artifice was tempered by an acute awareness of suffering, hypocrisy, and social exclusion. His classical education, cosmopolitan life, and uneasy position within Victorian moral culture help explain the stories' fusion of elegance, compassion, satire, and subversion. This collection is highly recommended to readers seeking more than ornamental fin-de-siècle prose. Wilde's short fiction rewards lovers of literary style, moral fable, gothic comedy, and cultural criticism, offering compact masterpieces that are both enchantingly readable and intellectually provocative.

Über den Autor

Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, the early 1890s saw him become one of the most popular playwrights in London. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for gross indecency for consensual homosexual acts in "one of the first celebrity trials", imprisonment, and early death from meningitis at age 46.
Theodore Winthrop (1828-1861) was a writer, lawyer, and world traveller. He was one of the first Union officers killed in the American Civil War. Cecil Dreeme, his most important work, was a semi-autobiographical novel dealing with social mores and gender roles set at New York University, where Winthrop had once been a lodger.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2024
Genre:	Importe , Romane & Erzählungen
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9788028371517
ISBN-10:	8028371515
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Wilde, Oscar
Hersteller:	Sharp Ink
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Copycat s.r.o., 22, Holesovice, Schnirchova 662, ?-170 00 Prague, kristoferpaetau@gmail.com
Maße:	229 x 152 x 11 mm
Von/Mit:	Oscar Wilde
Erscheinungsdatum:	15.05.2024
Gewicht:	0,282 kg