The World's Best Classic Short Stories
The World's Best Classic Short Stories
A glittering collection of some of the world's finest short stories, including: 'The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe 'The Necklace by Guy de Maupassant 'The Mezzotint' by M. R. James 'The Phantom Rickshaw' by Rudyard Kipling 'The Withered Arm' by Thomas Hardy 'The Model Millionaire' by Oscar Wilde 'The Monkey's Paw' by W. W. Jacobs 'An Uncomfortable Bed' by Guy de Maupassant 'The Mortal Immortal' by Mary Shelley 'The Black Cat' by Edgar Allan Poe 'Sredni Vashtar' by Saki 'The Nose' by Nicolai Gogol 'Regret' by Kate Chopin 'One Thousand Dollars' by O. Henry 'The Fly' by Katherine Mansfield 'A Descent into the Maelström' by Edgar Allan Poe 'The Sphinx Without a Secret' by Oscar Wilde 'The Inconsiderate' Waiter by J. M. Barrie 'The Black Poodle' by F. Anstey 'The Quest' by Saki 'The Three Strangers' by Thomas Hardy 'Oil of Dog' by Ambrose Bierce 'The Oval Portrait' by Edgar Allan Poe 'Markheim' by Robert Louis Stevenson 'Fear' by Guy de Maupassant 'The Belated Russian Passport' by Mark Twain 'The Changeling' by W. W. Jacobs 'The Pit and the Pendulum' by Edgar Allan Poe 'The Eyes of the Panther' by Ambrose Bierce 'The Dead' by James Joyce 'The Secret Sharer' by Joseph Conrad 'The Story of an Hour' by Kate Chopin 'The Telltale Heart' by Edgar Allan Poe 'My Favorite Murder' by Ambrose Bierce 'The Premature Burial' by Edgar Allan Poe 'Tobermory' by Saki 'Memoirs of a Yellow Dog' by O. Henry.
- ASIN: B00F64VT7S
- Manufacturer: Red Door Audiobooks
Classic Authors Super Set Series 2 (Golden Deer Classics)
Classic Authors Super Set Series 2 (Golden Deer Classics)
This book contains the following works with an Active Table of Contents- Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell : The Complete Novels - Thomas Hardy : The Complete Novels - Nathaniel Hawthorne : The Complete Novels - Victor Hugo: The Complete Novels- Robert Louis Stevenson: The Complete Novels - Rudyard Kipling : The Complete Novels and Stories- H. P. Lovecraft : The complete Collection - Edgar Allan Poe : The Complete Tales And Poems- Mary Shelley : The Complete Novels - H. G. Wells : The Classics Novels and Short Stories - Oscar Wilde : The Complete CollectionAlso available :Classics Authors Super Set Serie 1 (Golden Deer Classics)Classics Authors Super Set Serie 3 (Golden Deer Classics)Classics Authors Super Set Serie 4 (Golden Deer Classics)50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 1 Golden Deer Classics50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 2 Golden Deer Classics50 Masterpieces you have to read before you die Vol: 3 Golden Deer Classics
- ASIN: B071LSJM3Y
- Manufacturer: Oregan Publishing
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest
Here is Oscar Wilde's most brilliant tour de force, a witty and buoyant comedy of manners that has delighted millions in countless productions since its first performance in London's St. James' Theatre on February 14, 1895. The Importance of Being Earnest is celebrated not only for the lighthearted ingenuity of its plot, but for its inspired dialogue, rich with scintillating epigrams still savored by all who enjoy artful conversation.From the play's effervescent beginnings in Algernon Moncrieff's London flat to its hilarious denouement in the drawing room of Jack Worthing's country manor in Hertfordshire, this comic masterpiece keeps audiences breathlessly anticipating a new bon mot or a fresh twist of plot moment to moment.
- UPC: 800759264780
- ASIN: 0486264785
- ISBN: 0486264785
- Brand: Dover Publications
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (Signet Classics)
Complete Fairy Tales of Oscar Wilde (Signet Classics)
The master of wit and irony Published here alongside their evocative original illustrations, these fairy tales, as Oscar Wilde himself explained, were written “partly for children, and partly for those who have kept the childlike faculties of wonder and joy.”
- ASIN: 0451531078
- ISBN: 0451531078
- Brand: Wilde, Oscar/ Zipes, Jack David (AFT)/ Brandreth, Gyles (INT)
- Manufacturer: Signet
Flashman and the Tiger
Flashman and the Tiger
- ASIN: B000XU4SU0
- Manufacturer: Anchor
Bunburry - Murder at the Mousetrap: A Cosy Mystery Series. Episode 1 (Countryside Mysteries: A Cosy Shorts Series)
Bunburry - Murder at the Mousetrap: A Cosy Mystery Series. Episode 1 (Countryside Mysteries: A Cosy Shorts Series)
Miss Marple meets Oscar Wilde in this new series of cosy mysteries set in the picturesque Cotswolds village of Bunburry. In "Murder at the Mousetrap," the first Bunburry book, fudge-making and quaffing real ale in the local pub are matched by an undercurrent of passion, jealousy, hatred and murder - laced with a welcome dose of humour.Alfie McAlister has retreated from London to the peace and quiet of the country to recover from a personal tragedy. But an accidental death - which may have been no accident - reveals that the heart of England is far from the tranquil backwater he imagined. After arriving in Bunburry, he is co-opted as an amateur detective by Liz and Marge, two elderly ladies who were best friends with Alfie's late Aunt Augusta. And it is not long before their investigations take an even more dramatic turn ...Helena Marchmont is a pseudonym of Olga Wojtas, who was born and brought up in Edinburgh. She was encouraged to write by an inspirational English teacher, Iona M. Cameron. Olga won a Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award in 2015, has had more than 30 short stories published in magazines and anthologies and recently published her first mystery Miss Blaine's Prefect and the Golden Samovar.
- ASIN: B07DC6K1GG
- Manufacturer: Bastei Entertainment
The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde (Dover Books on Literature & Drama)
This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's brilliant storytelling skills and his amazing stylistic versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective yarns and comedies of manners. It includes the complete texts of "The Happy Prince and Other Tales," "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories," "Poems in Prose,"and the critical essay "The Portrait of Mr. W. H."Originally published in the late 1880s and early 1890s, these tales predate Wilde's fame as a dramatist. When he wrote them, he was best known among fashionable London society as a drawing-room raconteur. Many of the character types now familiar from his comedies first emerged in these stories, along with his gifted uses of parody, melodrama, paradox, and irony. Even more significantly, they reflect the author's preoccupation with opposites — idealistic love and desire, art and life, sincerity and artifice, innocence and sin, altruism and greed, and honesty and deceit — offering captivating expressions of the themes that dominated Wilde's life and thought.
- ASIN: 0486452166
- ISBN: 0486452166
- Manufacturer: Dover Publications
The Importance of Being Earnest
The Importance of Being Earnest
This book was converted from its physical edition to the digital format by a community of volunteers. You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
- ASIN: B004UJCNKC
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Vintage Classics)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Vintage Classics)
The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde’s enduringly popular story of a beautiful and corrupt man and the portrait that reveals all his secrets.Entranced by the perfection of his recently painted portrait, the youthful Dorian Gray expresses a wish that the figure on the canvas could age and change in his place. When his wish comes true, the portrait becomes his hideous secret as he follows a downward trajectory of decadence and cruelty that leaves its traces only in the portrait’s degraded image. Wilde’s unforgettable portrayal of a Faustian bargain and its consequences is narrated with his characteristic incisive wit and diamond-sharp prose. The result is a novel that is as flamboyant and controversial as its incomparable author.
- ASIN: 0307743527
- ISBN: 9780307743527
- Brand: Vintage Books
- Manufacturer: Vintage
The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
The Best of Oscar Wilde: Selected Plays and Writings
Oscar Wilde’s infamous wit, taste for scandal, and gift for revealing the hypocrisies of fashionable society are on display here in this collection of his finest plays. A genius both of and ahead of his time, he built his craft on the eternal questions of right and wrong—with pithy dialogue as fresh today as when it was written.In addition to Wilde’s five major plays, this Signet Classics edition contains:• Two interviews with the playwright at the peak of his career, in which Wilde discusses his work—and his critics• Some of his most brilliant critical writing, in which he discusses the nature of art in terms that anticipate much of today’s literary theory• An appendix that restores valuable lines that appeared in the original text of The Importance of Being EarnestWith an Introduction by Sylvan Barnetand a New Afterword by Marylu Hill
- ASIN: B002VB3F0I
- Manufacturer: Signet