by Oscar Wilde · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788485767182
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«El crim de Lord Arthur Savile» is Oscar Wilde's satirical short story, published by L'Atzar in paperback (95 pages, in Catalan).
Lord Arthur Savile, a London aristocrat, discovers at a party, through a palm reader, that he is destined to commit a murder. In order to marry without delay, he decides to carry out that sentence with increasingly disconcerting attempts. The narrative combines irony and black humour with a critique of superstition and Victorian morality.
Work originally published in 1887 as «Lord Arthur Savile's Crime»; the Catalan edition consists of 95 pages and belongs to the collection «Lectures de l'estudiant» (No. 14).
Suitable for readers of Victorian classics, short stories and satirical humour.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
