by Oscar Wilde · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140620535
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«Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories» is Oscar Wilde's collection of short stories published by Penguin Classics in paperback (192 pages, in English).
Collection of mystery stories with a semi-humorous tone that dissects Victorian society with irony: Lord Arthur Savile, about to marry, learns from a chiromancer that he is destined to commit a crime. The volume includes «The Canterville Ghost», «The Sphinx Without a Secret» and «The Model Millionaire».
The collection originally appeared in 1891; this Penguin Popular Classics edition dates from 1994.
For readers of classic fiction and short stories who appreciate satirical humour and social criticism.
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.
