Book description
'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. The stories give…
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1 author picked The Complete Short Stories as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
This book patiently waited thirty years for me to read it. That is how much time elapsed between me buying this handsome 1950s edition, which is actually Wilde’s 1891 collection of fairytales "A House of Pomegranates" retitled.
I have long admired Wilde the man, but it is only now that I am fully appreciating Wilde the writer. I was so moved by these exquisitely written stories. I think that they represent Wilde at his very best and reveal much about the deeply sensitive man that he was.
I have read many books about this fascinating writer, but I have come…
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