The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde
Volume VIII: The Short Fiction
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 30 November 2017
- ISBN 9780198119593
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages630 pages
- Size 224x144x39 mm
- Weight 858 g
- Language English 10
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Short description:
This edition collects all of Oscar Wilde's short fiction, principally The Happy Prince (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891), and Wilde's second volume of fairy stories, A House of Pomegranates (1891). It also includes the first full edition of Wilde's expanded version of 'The Portrait of Mr W.H.', unpublished in Wilde's lifetime.
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This edition collects and prints all of Oscar Wilde's short fiction, principally the three collections of tales published in the late 1880s and early 1890s. The first of these was The Happy Prince (1888), a volume which was aimed at the children's market, and which capitalized on the growing popularity of fairy stories in nineteenth-century Britain. This edition then prints Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (1891), Wilde's volume of short tales satirizing the manners and morals of London's elite in the last decades of the nineteenth century--those 'upper ten thousand', as Max Beerbohm later called them. In many ways these stories anticipate both the themes and the devices of Wilde's later and highly successful society comedies, including Lady Windermere's Fan and The Importance of Being Earnest. This edition also includes Wilde's second volume of fairy stories, A House of Pomegranates (1891); this volume comprised tales written for adults, and contained Decadent and what can be seen as highly sexualized themes. The textual and printing history of each of these volumes is described and explored in detail. The substantial commentary provides a full critical annotation of each story.
Wilde also wrote stories which were not collected, most importantly a jeu d'esprit on the identity of the addressee of Shakespeare's Sonnets--'The Portrait of Mr W.H.', a piece which appeared in periodical form in the late 1880s. Wilde expanded his story, turning it into a hybrid of fiction and criticism, and in the process used it as a vehicle to describe his view of the relationship--physical, artistic, and spiritual--between Shakespeare and a (fictitious) boy-actor in his company, the 'Mr W.H.' of the title and of the dedication of the first printing of Shakespeare's Sonnets. This revised and expanded piece, which remained unpublished in Wilde's lifetime, represents his most sustained and eloquent exploration of male-male desire. The edition prints in full for the first time Wilde's manuscript of that story. Like the other works it prints, the edition also contains full critical annotation which documents Wilde's reading on Renaissance philosophy and theatre history. The lengthy introduction describes in detail Wilde's metamorphosis from a jobbing journalist, whose work often appeared anonymously in the penny press of the 1880s, to an accomplished writer of fiction.
the accompanying editorial apparatus and notes are superb, supporting the key arguments set out in the introduction and drawing attention to significant features of Wilde's methods of composition and revision ... [a] magnificent volume
Table of Contents:
Introduction
Wilde's Principal Writing (excluding his fiction) from January 1885-July 1889
Textual Introduction
Abbreviations and Symbols
'A Fire At Sea'
The Happy Prince and Other Tales
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
A House of Pomegranates
The incomparable and ingenious history of Mr W. H.
'The Portrait of Mr W. H.'
Commentary
Appendix: 'L'Anniversaire de la a Naissance de la Petite Princesse'
Index
