Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and other stories
By: Oscar Wilde
Series: Penguin books -- 1021
Publisher: Penguin Books
Published: 1954
Place of publication: Harmondsworth
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 191
Description: These eight high-spirited stories were written at the height of Oscar Wilde's creative power, between 1887 and 1891, when he delighted polite society with the epigram and controversy which flowed from his pen. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime is a masterpiece of polished cynicism, in which poison, explosive clocks and finally murder forerun married bliss; and The Canterville Ghost is a venerable — and resourceful — family spook thoroughly unhorsed by his new American owners. Two of Wilde's best-loved stories for children are also included, together with The Portrait of Mr W. H., a masterly example of scholarly detection, and three rare pieces by the man for whom, above all, there was ‘no Mystery so great as Misery’.
The cover, designed by Germano Facetti, shows a detail depicting Oscar Wilde from ‘A Private View, 1881’ by W. P. Frith, in the collection of
C. J. R. Pope Esq.
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