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The Complete Short Fiction

Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners – the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde`s name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styles. Victorian moral justice is comically inverted in `Lord Arthur Savile`s Crime` and `The Canterville Ghost`, and society`s materialism comes under sharp, humorous criticism in `The Model Millionaire`, while `The Happy Prince` and `The Nightingale and the Rose` are hauntingly melancholic in their magical evocations of selfless love. These small masterpieces convey the brilliance of Wilde`s vision, exploring complex moral issues through an elegant juxtaposition of wit and sentiment.