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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

Author
Oscar Wilde
Series
Children's Classics
Language
English
Length
124 pages
ISBN
9781911144793
Published
15 December 2015
Imprint
Sovereign
  • Oscar Wilde
  • Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
  • The Canterville Ghost
  • The Sphinx Without a Secret
  • The Modle Millionaire
  • The Protrait of Mr. W.H.
  • tales
  • happiness
  • friendship
  • compassion

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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime opens this Oscar Wilde collection: a charming young man is told by a chiromantist that he must commit murder, and sets out to do the duty with comic precision. Also here: The Canterville Ghost, The Sphinx Without a Secret, The Model Millionaire, and The Portrait of Mr. W.H. Darker undertones run under the wit as fate, fraud, and ghostly farce trade places.

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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