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By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University) Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was a successful poet, playwright, novelist, short-story writer, and writer of fairy tales for children. And this, of course, is to say nothing of his sparkling wit and conversation, and the many memorable quotations he is known for. Below, we consider Oscar Wilde’s writing, bringing together…

The Complete short stories of Oscar Wilde by Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Publication date 2006 Publisher New York : Dover Collection internetarchivebooks; inlibrary; printdisabled Contributor Internet Archive Language English Item Size 799.4M . 196 p. ; 21 cm Access-restricted-item

The Picture of Dorian Gray. Ravenna (1878) – The poem has seven parts and describes a person who has landed in a city. The poem starts with memories of the country and it ends with a salute to the city. Poems (1881) – The first collection of poems written by Wilde was published during this time. He visited the United States for a lecture tour in 1882.

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Wilde, Oscar, 1854–1900. [Short stories] The complete short stories of Oscar Wilde / Oscar Wilde. p. cm. 9780486121864 I. Title. PR5812.D68 2006 823’.8—dc22 2006046282. Manufactured in the United States of America Dover Publications, Inc., 31 East 2nd Street, Mineola, N.Y. 11501 Table of Contents.

Short story of a little nightingale who sacrifices her life to create the perfect red rose for a young student in love. ... by Oscar Wilde “She said that she would dance with me if I brought her red roses,” cried the young Student; “but in all my garden there is no red rose.” From her nest in the holm-oak tree the Nightingale heard him ...

Complete short fiction by Wilde, Oscar, 1854-1900. Publication date 1994 Topics English fiction -- Short stories, Literature, Modern, English fiction, English fiction Short stories Publisher London ; New York : Penguin Books Collection internetarchivebooks; printdisabled Contributor

Oscar Wilde’s short stories, in particular, solidified his place amongst the greatest authors in literary history. While his works have been praised for their wit and charm, the stories often have a darker undertone that have stuck with readers for generations. While many authors during the late 19th century focused on themes of morality and ...

Oscar Wilde at the Library of Short Stories. Read stories by Oscar Wilde here. Born in Ireland in 1854. Died in 1900.

Reviews Bibliography Contribute An initiative by Regina Martínez Ponciano. All data is licensed under CC BY 4.0 DEED. Home. Welcome to Wilde Short Fiction.. This website is an initiative to address one of the main problems for students of Oscar Wilde's short fiction: a lack of primary sources to study their evolution and contexts.

This collection of Oscar Wilde's writing includes fairy tales, short stories, and poetry. Influenced by the Irish fairy tales he heard as a child, Wilde allowed his imagination to run free across a variety of genres-from mystery to fantasy and the supernatural-while ensuring that his serious social and artistic concerns featured as an undercurrent throughout.

The short stories here aren't all that great, honestly. Oscar Wilde is great at quips and epigrams, but many of the stories here don't show that. Probably the story 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' is the best one here, and 'The Canterville Ghost' is a close second.

In Oscar Wilde’s 1888 short story The Selfish Giant, a giant returns home to find that children are using his garden as a playground and drives them out, building a wall to keep them out. Without the children, the garden is plunged into a perpetual winter, deprived of life and joy. One day, a mysterious child enters the garden.

The Oscar Wilde Page at American Literature, featuring a biography and Free Library of the author's Novels, Stories, Poems, Letters, and Texts. ... a quick wit, Wilde could succeed writing in any form he chose and excelled as a conversationalist, journalist, novelist, short story writer, and essayist. He ultimately distinguished himself further ...

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Yes, you can access The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Literature & Classics. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore. Information. Publisher. Dover Publications. Year. 2012. Print ISBN. 9780486452166. eBook ISBN.

Like his later writings, Wilde's stories are a sweeping indictment of the society that would imprison him for his homosexuality in 1895, five years before his death at the age of forty-six.Published here in the form in which Victorian readers first encountered them, Wilde's short stories contain much that appeals to modern readers of vastly ...

"The Complete Short Stories" published on by Oxford University Press. ‘Wilde did not converse - he told tales.’ Oscar Wilde was already famous as a brilliant wit and raconteur when he first began to publish his short stories in the late 1880s. They have never lacked readers and admirers, George Orwell and W. B. Yeats among them. ...

In The Remarkable Rocket by Oscar Wilde we have the theme of self-importance, loneliness, failure, ego and delusion. Taken from his The Complete Short Stories collection the story is narrated in the third person by an unnamed narrator and after reading the story the reader realises that Wilde may be exploring the theme of self-importance.