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Seller: booktopia_australia (289,864) 98.7%, Location: Sydney, Ships to: AU, NZ, Item: 292810061110 Booktopia Store About us Shipping & Delivery Returns Policy FAQ Contact Us Categories Arts & Entertainment Biographies & True Stories Children & Teenagers Computing & I.T. Earth Sciences & Environment Economics Education Engineering & Technology Fiction Health & Personal Development Humanities Language & Linguistics Law Lifestyle Literature, Poetry & Plays Medicine Science Newsletter Sign up to our newsletter to hear about about new items and special promotions! Sign up Payment Methods Complete Short Fiction by Oscar Wilde ISBN: 9780141439693Price:$18.95 Format: Paperback Postage: FREE Standard Postage In Stock with our Australian supplier, see below for details. Product Description 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. This edition includes the complete texts of Wilde's three volumes of short fiction, together with 'The Portrait of Mr W. H.' Ian Small's introduction discusses Wilde's life, the cultural and literary background to his fiction and the complex ways in which it can be read. About the Author Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born in Dublin in 1854, the son of an eminent eye-surgeon and a nationalist poetess who wrote under the pseudonym of 'Speranza'. He went to Trinity College, Dublin and then to Magdalen College, Oxford, where he began to propagandize the new Aesthetic (or 'Art for Art's Sake') Movement. Despite winning a first and the Newdigate Prize for Poetry, Wilde failed to obtain an Oxford scholarship, and was forced to earn a living by lecturing and writing for periodicals. He published a largely unsuccessful volume of poems in 1881 and in the next year undertook a lecture-tour of the United States in order to promote the D'Oyle Carte production of Gilbert and Sullivan's comic opera, Patience. After his marriage to Constance Lloyd in 1884, he tried to establish himself as a writer, but with little initial success. However, his three volumes of short fiction, The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891) and A House of Pomegranates (1891), together with his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891), gradually won him a reputation as a modern writer with an original talent, a reputation confirmed and enhanced by the phenomenal success of his Society Comedies – Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest, all performed on the West End stage between 1892 and 1895. Success, however, was short-lived. In 1891 Wilde had met and fallen extravagantly in love with Lord Alfred Douglas. In 1895, when his success as a dramatist was at its height, Wilde brought an unsuccessful libel action against Douglas's father, the Marquess of Queensberry. Wilde lost the case and two trials later was sentenced to two years' imprisonment for acts of gross indecency. As a result of this experience he wrote The Ballad of Reading Gaol. He was released from prison in 1897 and went into an immediate self-imposed exile on the Continent. He died in Paris in ignominy in 1900. Product Details ISBN: 9780141439693 Format: Paperback Title: Complete Short Fiction Delivery This title is in stock with our Australian supplier. Once you have placed your order we will immediately order it from our supplier. Once we receive it we will ship it to you ASAP from our Sydney Distribution Centre. Please note the handling time applicable for this product.For an estimate on the delivery timeframe please refer to 'Delivery' in the top section of this listing, underneath the 'Postage' section.For more information please see 'Shipping and Delivery' in the banner above. Condition: Brand new, ISBN: 9780141439693, Author: Oscar Wilde, Format: Paperback, Language: English