Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Selfish Giant/The Star Child
by Wilde, Oscar
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine in good dust jacket. light shelfwear and a 1 inch closed tear to th dustjacket
- ISBN 10
- 156163056X
- ISBN 13
- 9781561630561
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Synopsis
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.
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- Bookseller
- West with the Night (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- Alibris.0013630
- Title
- Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde: The Selfish Giant/The Star Child
- Author
- Wilde, Oscar
- Format/Binding
- Hard cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in good dust jacket. light shelfwear and a 1 inch closed tear to th dustjacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 2nd printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 156163056X
- ISBN 13
- 9781561630561
- Publisher
- Nantier Beall Minoustchine Publishing
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1992
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