Description
Playwright, poet, essayist, flamboyant man-about-town, Oscar Wilde pack an astonishing amount of work, genius, and controversy into two short decades, producing masterworks in every literary genre. This selection includes almost all of his short stories, including The Canterville Ghost, The Fisherman and his Soul, and The Remarkable Rocket.
Alongside THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE, Harper Perennial will publish the short fiction of Fyodor Dostoevsky, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, Leo Tolstoy, and Stephen Crane to be packaged in a beautifully designed, boldly colorful boxset in the aim to attract contemporary fans of short fiction to these revered masters of the form. Also, in each of these selections will appear a story from one of the new collections being published in the Summer of the Short Story. A story from Simon Van Booy's forthcoming collection, LOVE BEGINS IN WINTER, will be printed at the back of this volume.
Author: Oscar Wilde
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 04/28/2009
Pages: 224
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 7.00h x 4.90w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9780061773761
ISBN10: 006177376X
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Hispanic & Latino
- Fiction | Coming of Age