{"product_id":"the-complete-short-stories-of-oscar-wilde-dover-literature-short-stories","title":"The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde (Dover Literature: Short Stories)","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThe Happy Prince and Other Tales \n\u003cbr\u003e The Happy Prince \n\u003cbr\u003e The Nightingale and the Rose \n\u003cbr\u003e The Selfish Giant \n\u003cbr\u003e The Devoted Friend \n\u003cbr\u003e The Remarkable Rocket \n\u003cbr\u003eThe Portrait of Mr. W. H. \n\u003cbr\u003eA House of Pomegranates \n\u003cbr\u003e The Young King \n\u003cbr\u003e The Birthday of the Infanta \n\u003cbr\u003e The Fisherman and his Soul \n\u003cbr\u003e The Star-Child \n\u003cbr\u003eLord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories \n\u003cbr\u003e Lord Arthur Savile's Crime \n\u003cbr\u003e The Sphinx Without a Secret \n\u003cbr\u003e The Canterville Ghost \n\u003cbr\u003e The Model Millionaire \n\u003cbr\u003ePoems in Prose \n\u003cbr\u003e The Artist \n\u003cbr\u003e The Doer of Good \n\u003cbr\u003e The Disciple \n\u003cbr\u003e The Master \n\u003cbr\u003e The House of Judgment \n\u003cbr\u003e The Teacher of Wisdom\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePoet and playwright Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) remains best known for his comedies of the 1890s, including \u003ci\u003eThe Importance of Being Earnest, \u003c\/i\u003e and for his tragic imprisonment and untimely death. \u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tThis 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,\" \n\u003ci\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eand the critical essay \"The Portrait of Mr. W. H.\" \n\u003cbr\u003eOriginally 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Dover Publications","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46581130920067,"sku":"SPTM-9780486452166","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0564\/6830\/8099\/files\/9780486452166_spiral_eaae2979-93df-4730-b0ec-c63d93e6db3c.png?v=1770802766","url":"https:\/\/sebink.com\/products\/the-complete-short-stories-of-oscar-wilde-dover-literature-short-stories","provider":"Sebink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}