Oscar Wilde Complete Shorter Fiction by Isobel Murray

Oscar Wilde Complete Shorter Fiction

Edited by Isobel Murray

Oxford University Press, 1979
ISBN 0192815008
Paperback

Condition: Very Good
a little edge and shelf wear, a little rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, age toned pages (see photographs)

“Now for the first time in one volume we have a completer collection of all the short fiction he published, and it clearly shows his versatility and skill as a storyteller, too often overshadowed by his reputation as a dramatist, critical theorist and novelist.
This new edition includes such well-known fairy-tales as ‘The Happy Prince’, ‘The Young King’, and ‘The Fisherman and his Soul’; witty social and literary parody in ‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime ‘ and ‘The Canterville Ghost’; ‘The Portrait of Mr. W. H..’, Wilde’s fictive identification of the mysterious dedicatee of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, and some of the parables he most characteristically delivered, which he called ‘Poems in Prose’.”