by Oscar Wilde · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140817768
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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 (144 pages, in English).
It brings together four tales: 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime', 'The Sphinx without a Secret', 'The Canterville Ghost' and 'The Model Millionaire'. In the title story, a London aristocrat's life is turned upside down when a fortune-teller predicts a grim fate; the volume combines intrigue, irony and satire of Victorian society.
1999 edition from the Penguin Student Editions series, edited by Jeremy Hunter. The title story was originally published in 1887.
Aimed at students of English literature, as a school edition of Oscar Wilde's short stories.
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.
