| Título : | The Complete Short Stories | | Tipo de documento: | texto impreso | | Autores: | Oscar Wilde, Autor | | Mención de edición: | 1º | | Editorial: | Oxford [United Kingdom] : Oxford University Press | | Fecha de publicación: | 2010 | | Colección: | Oxford World's Classics | | Número de páginas: | 252 p | | Dimensiones: | 20 cm | | ISBN/ISSN/DL: | 978-0-19-953506-4 | | Idioma : | Inglés (eng) | | Clasificación: | :Inglés:Literatura:Historias, Cuentos cortos, Compilación
:Inglés:Literatura:Lecturas Originales
| | Etiquetas: | varios selección recopilación clásicos | | Resumen: | 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. The stories give free rein to Wilde's originality, literary skill, and sophistication. They include poignant fairy-tales such as The Happy Prince' and 'The Selfish Giant', and the extravagant comedy and social observation of 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' and 'The canterville Ghost'.
They also encompass the daring narrative experiments of 'The Portrait of Mr.W.H.', Wilde's fictional investigation into the identity of the dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets, and the 'Poems in Prose', based on the Gospel stories. |
The Complete Short Stories [texto impreso] / Oscar Wilde, Autor . - 1º . - Oxford (Great Clarendon Street,, ox 2 6 D P, United Kingdom) : Oxford University Press, 2010 . - 252 p ; 20 cm. - ( Oxford World's Classics) . ISBN : 978-0-19-953506-4 Idioma : Inglés ( eng) | Clasificación: | :Inglés:Literatura:Historias, Cuentos cortos, Compilación
:Inglés:Literatura:Lecturas Originales
| | Etiquetas: | varios selección recopilación clásicos | | Resumen: | 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. The stories give free rein to Wilde's originality, literary skill, and sophistication. They include poignant fairy-tales such as The Happy Prince' and 'The Selfish Giant', and the extravagant comedy and social observation of 'Lord Arthur Savile's Crime' and 'The canterville Ghost'.
They also encompass the daring narrative experiments of 'The Portrait of Mr.W.H.', Wilde's fictional investigation into the identity of the dedicatee of Shakespeare's sonnets, and the 'Poems in Prose', based on the Gospel stories. |
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The Complete Short Stories / Oscar Wilde
