Name: The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection (en Inglés)
Price: 19.57 USD
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Author: Wilde, Oscar ; Frankel, Nicholas
ISBN: 9780674248670

portada The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Autor

Oscar Wilde

Ilustrado por

Nicholas Frankel

Editorial

Harvard University Press

Año

2020

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

336

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.1 x 14.2 x 3.6 cm

Peso

0.50 kg.

ISBN13

9780674248670

Categorías

Ficción clásica
Historias tracicionales y mitos
Historias cortas

The Short Stories of Oscar Wilde: An Annotated Selection (en Inglés)

Oscar Wilde (Autor) · Nicholas Frankel (Ilustrado por) · Harvard University Press · Tapa Dura

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An innovative new edition of nine classic short stories from one of the greatest writers of the Victorian era. "I cannot think other than in stories," Oscar Wilde once confessed to his friend André Gide. In this new selection of his short fiction, Wilde's gifts as a storyteller are on full display, accompanied by informative facing-page annotations from Wilde biographer and scholar Nicholas Frankel. A wide-ranging introduction brings readers into the world from which the author drew inspiration. Each story in the collection brims with Wilde's trademark wit, style, and sharp social criticism. Many are reputed to have been written for children, although Wilde insisted this was not true and that his stories would appeal to all "those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy." "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" stands alongside Wilde's comic masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest, while other stories--including "The Happy Prince," the tale of a young ruler who had never known sorrow, and "The Nightingale and the Rose," the story of a nightingale who sacrifices herself for true love--embrace the theme of tragic, forbidden love and are driven by an undercurrent of seriousness, even despair, at the repressive social and sexual values of Wilde's day. 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 different ages and temperaments. They are the perfect distillation of one of the Victorian era's most remarkable writers.

Oscar Wilde

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Oscar Wilde es considerado uno de los dramaturgos más destacados del Londres victoriano tardío. Además, fue una celebridad de la época debido a su gran y aguzado ingenio. Hoy en día, es recordado por sus epigramas, sus cuentos, sus obras de teatro, su única novela, El retrato de Dorian Gray, y la tragedia de su encarcelamiento, seguida de su muerte prematura.

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