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Fairy Tales for Adults Volume 1

Author
Oscar Wilde, Anton Chekhov
Series
Ideas for Life
Language
English
Length
40 pages
ISBN
9781911144977
Published
15 January 2016
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Anton Chehov
  • tales
  • epigrams
  • happiness
  • friendship
  • compassion
  • selfishness
  • classic
  • adults

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Description

Wilde’s miller and Chekhov’s rented rooms share a volume. Anyuta and Polinka are students, poverty, and the body as a bargain; The Devoted Friend is a linnet ruined by a kind man’s selfishness; The Sphinx Without a Secret is a woman who needed a mystery more than a lover. Contents with a bite: Anyuta, The Devoted Friend, Polinka, The Sphinx Without a Secret. Poverty, a false friend, a rented mystery — comedy with a bill attached, not a moral in gold leaf.

Author

Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was born in Dublin, took a double first at Magdalen College, Oxford, and made conversation a form of literature. The Picture of Dorian Gray is the one novel — beauty, bargain, and a portrait that keeps the score. The Importance of Being Earnest is the comedy in which nothing is earnest except the jokes. Prison and exile followed the trials. Style was an ethic. Scandal became a second plot.

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