Complete Short Fiction

by Oscar Wilde, Ian Small (Editor)

The complete short stories of the masterful Irish writer

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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Genres: Classics, Short Stories, Fiction, Literature, 19th Century, Fantasy, Poetry

316 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1894

About the author

Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and his criminal conviction for gross indecency for homosexual acts.
Wilde's parents were Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. In his youth, Wilde learned to speak fluent French and German. At university, he read Greats; he demonstrated himself to be an exceptional classicist, first at Trinity College Dublin, then at Magdalen College, Oxford. He became associated with the emerging philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles.
Wilde tried his hand at various literary activities: he wrote a play, published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on "The English Renaissance" in art and interior decoration, and then returned to London where he lectured on his American travels and wrote reviews for various periodicals. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). Wilde returned to drama, writing Salome (1891) in French while in Paris, but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Undiscouraged, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London.
At the height of his fame and success, while An Ideal Husband (1895) and The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) were still being performed in London, Wilde issued a civil writ against John Sholto Douglas, the 9th Marquess of Queensberry for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel hearings unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and criminal prosecution for gross indecency with other males. The jury was unable to reach a verdict and so a retrial was ordered. In the second trial Wilde was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in abridged form in 1905), a long letter that discusses his spiritual journey through his trials and is a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. On the day of his release, he caught the overnight steamer to France, never to return to Britain or Ireland. In France and Italy, he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life.

Reviews

[Ulysse · Rating 5 out of 5]

Oh Oscar why did they treat you so bad?
And wasn’t Lord Alfred Douglas a cad
For leaving you stranded all by yourself
Sad as a book without reader or shelf?
When the gavel came down smack on the table
And six prosecutors clad in their sable
Robes shook their wigs and pointed at you
Twisting your words to make them untrue
You hung down your head and felt so much shame
—You who had climbed the summits of fame!—
That you were just ready to give up your name
And set everything you stood for aflame
My dear Oscar Wilde you were so good with words
But not good enough to counter the herds
Of ignorant stupid prejudiced haters
Who parade as men but who are just praters
Ready to condemn anyone they can
For veering from what is considered a man
But these so well-dressed educated people
Were not even fit to paint a church steeple
Let alone stand in the same room as you
As you lay on your deathbed deep in some rue
Fighting in Paris with ugly wallpaper
All drab and lit up by a single taper
But what seems above all not so absurd
Is that you in the end would have the last word
And the idiots who once called you a kook
Shamefully and forever live on in your book

[John Hatley · Rating 4 out of 5]

These short stories, collectively and individually, are brilliant and clearly demonstrate Oscar Wilde’s genius, his versatility and his skill as a writer.

[Carlos Bazzano · Rating 5 out of 5]

"El artista es el creador de las cosas bellas. Revelar el arte y ocultar al artista es la finalidad del arte" (Oscar Wilde, prefacio de El retrato de Dorian Gray)

Yo, humilde lector, me atrevo a decir que adhiero a parte de la anterior afirmación y disiento con la otra parte. El artista es el creador de cosas bellas, cierto. Pero no estoy de acuerdo con que el arte revele al arte y oculte al artista, ello quizá sea cierto en algunas de las bellas artes, pero no en todas, en la Literatura el arte revela por sí mismo al artista y en ningún caso tal afirmación puede resultar de mayor certeza que en el caso de Oscar Wilde.

Este pequeño libro contiene todos los cuentos de este gran Artista (con mayúscula) y constituye una joya al que todo lector debería dar una oportunidad. Es un deleite perderse entre estas páginas y disfrutar de las creaciones de Wilde que son poesía en estado puro, me resulta sumamente difícil concebir prosa más poética que la de Wilde.

Ciertamente algunos cuentos son mejores que otros. Así, desde mi punto de vista, los mejores cuentos son: El fantasma de Canterville, El ruiseñor y la rosa, El gigante egoísta y El retrato del señor W.H., aunque todos son muy buenos, pero en éstos se percibe netamente el pulso del talento narrativo de Wilde. Por otra parte, con el cuento El amigo fiel refleja una situación que ya era corriente en su tiempo y que sigue siéndolo hoy, y que quien hace un favor se siente en el derecho de reclamar luego.

No me extiendo más pues ninguna reseña puede hacer total justicia a la joya que resulta este libro y es que leer a Oscar Wilde siempre es un placer.

[Mehmet]

"Ruh, ıssız kumsalda durup onları seyretti." (s.108)

Son derece sıcak, bilgelikle yüklü, keyifli öyküler ve masallar bunlar. Çocukluğumda okuduğum rengarenk dünyalara kapımı açan masal kitaplarını hatırlattı bana. Bu vesileyle tekrar çocukluğuma dönmemi sağladı.
Öykülerin kimi zaman hüznü aynı zamanda mizahi unsurlarla kaynaştırabilmesi büyük bir edebi dehayı gösteriyor. Özellikle "hortlak" temalı öyküyü (ya da masalı) okurken çok eğlendim. Bu öyküde satır aralarında aynı zamanda Amerikan dünya görüşü ile İngiliz dünya görüşünü karşılaştırması dikkatimden kaçmadı.
Nar Evi başlıklı masaldaki renkli dünya; bana Binbir Gece Masalları'nı hatırlattı. Yorumumu bu öyküden bir bölüm ile bitirmek istiyorum:

"Kentin içi aynı bir çarşıya benzer. Keşke benimle birlikte olsaydın. Dar sokaklara gerilmiş rengarenk kağıt fenerler, iri kelebekler gibi oynaşır. Rüzgar damların üstünden estiği zaman, fenerler renkli su kabarcıkları gibi yükselip alçalır. Esnaf, dükkanların önünde, ipek halılar üzerinde oturur. Uzun siyah sakalları vardır, sarıkları altın pullarla kaplıdır ve serin parmaklarının arasından, kehribar boncuklu uzun tespihlerini kaydırırlar." (s.114)

[moi, k.y.a. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Sonra Kırlangıç yeniden uçup Mutlu Prens’in yanına döndü ve ona yaptığını anlattı. “Garip şey,” dedi, “içim sımsıcak, oysa hava ne kadar soğuk.”

Ne kadar güzel öykü ve masallardı onlar öyle...
Bak bu böyle böyle yapmış, sen sakın yapma, hııı! gibi bir his uyandırmadan farkındalık yaratabilen bir özelliğe sahip.

“Nereyi seversen orası senin dünyandır,” diye atıldı, hüzünlü bir çarkıfelek; gençliğinde eski bir köknar kutuya bağlanmıştı; kalbi kırıktı ve bununla gurur duyardı. “Ama aşkın modası geçti artık, şairler öldürdü aşkı. Aşk hakkında o kadar çok şey yazdılar ki, kimse onlara inanmaz oldu; bence çok normal. Gerçek âşık acı çeker ve susar. Hatırlıyorum da, ben bir zamanlar... Ama artık önemi kalmadı. Sevda maziye karıştı.”

En beğendiğim Vefalı Dost oldu.

[Fernando · Rating 5 out of 5]

El genio literario indiscutido de Oscar Wilde brilla en cada uno de los cuentos que componen este volumen. Libro altamente recomendable para todo aquel lector que admire su obra o para quien quiera conocerla.

[Gabriel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Hay de todo entre la colección pero son cuentos que he amado en su totalidad. De pequeño leía mucho a Oscar Wilde y de grande refuerzo más mi gusto por su escritura.

[Ana · Rating 4 out of 5]

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Lord Arthur Savile, is introduced by Lady Windermere to Mr Septimus R. Podgers, a chiromantist, who reads his palm and tells him that it is his destiny to be a murderer. (4 stars)

The Sphinx without a Secret - When Lord Muchison catches sight of a mysterious and beautiful lady in a carriage on London's Bond Street, he is captivated and spends the next few days on the lookout for her again. (3 stars)

The Canterville Ghost - (3 stars)

The Model Millionaire - Hughie Erskine has a problem. He is madly in love with Laura Merton, but both of them are flat broke and unable to marry. Then a beggar makes an appearance. (2 stars)

The Happy Prince and Other Tales and A House of Pomegranates collections are reviewed here (4 stars)

The Portrait of Mr. W. H. - (4 stars)

Poems in Prose

The Artist, The Disciple, The Master, The House of Judgement, The Teacher of Wisdom (3 stars)

The Doer of Good (4 stars)

[Ben Loory · Rating 4 out of 5]

i don't think i've ever used the word "exquisite" before, especially in relation to anyone's writing, but the writing in these stories really is exquisite. the stories themselves are flawlessly conceived and executed; every other line a perfect quotable paradox. my only complaint is that it all got a little claustrophobic after all. so perfect, so finely-wrought, so heartbreakingly sad, so clever... it was all just a little bit too just-so. there are no car chases, no fistfights, no people yelling in the streets, no drunks screaming off bridges into the night... for all the talk of obscenity and decadence that surrounds wilde's name, he really is an exceedingly tasteful and polite writer. sorta made me want to go bowling.

best parts: the half-page prose poem "the artist," the scooby-dooish "canterville ghost," and this horrifying tale about a little bird who presses its breast against a thorn in order to make the roses red...

[Meem Arafat Manab · Rating 4 out of 5]

বেড়ে লাগছে।
ওয়াইল্ডের একটা বৈশিষ্ট্য একটু প্রকট, আপনি সচরাচর পুরুষ চরিত্রের এত উদ্দীপক বর্ণনা পাবেন না, বিশেষত দৈহিক। ডোরিয়ান গ্রে-র ক্ষেত্রে এমনটা ছিলো, এখানেও দেখা গেছে বারবার।
কিন্তু আরো প্রকট বৈশিষ্ট্য, আমার মনে হয়েছে তার সৌন্দর্য্যবোধ। ইংরেজি যতখানি পড়েছি, ওয়াইল্ডের ভাষা আমার পড়া সেরাগুলির একটা হবে।
লর্ড আর্থার স্যাভিলের শেষ গল্প বাদে বাকী তিনখান, সুখী রাজকুমারের সব কয়টা, ডালিমবাড়ির মাঝের দুইটা, বিশেষ করে জন্মদিনেরটা অসাধারণ, অসাধারণ। শেষের পাঁচটা গদ্যকাব্য (গল্পই ত বোধ হলো), এরাও অসাধারণ ঠেকেছে আমার কাছে, দিব্যি।
অনেকের মরালিস্ট মনে হতে পারে। কিন্তু হলো না হয়। ভাষার কী কেরদানী রে বাবা। কী ঝঙ্কার!

এইখানে ওয়াইল্ড সাহেবের প্রায় সব লেখা পেলাম, পত্রাদি আর প্রবন্ধ বাদে, আগ্রহীরা ঘেটে দেখতে পারেন। আগ্রহী হন, ওয়াইল্ড ভালো।

[George Ilsley · Rating 5 out of 5]

I've picked away at this collection over the years, which includes a number of prose poems. Having just completed "The Fisherman and his Soul" (Wilde's longest work of short fiction) I now feel that I have read this whole collection.

There is quite the range here, everything from tales often considered to be for children, such as "The Happy Prince" and "The Selfish Giant", as well as a deep dive into the mysteries of Shakespeare's muse, "The Portrait of Mr. W.H."

There is a strong fairy tale quality to most of these short pieces, tales of princes and giants, of nightingales and young kings. There are even a couple of ghost stories.

[Samuel Fuente · Rating 4 out of 5]

En realidad 3,5.
Wilde tiene una gran capacidad para hacer cuentos infantiles, que son preciosos, sobre todo el Pescador y su Alma, y tiene unos cuentos 'para adultos' también bastante buenos. El problema de estos últimos es que sus principios suelen ser pesados o aburridos, describiendo asuntos sin importancias. Además, tiene que ver su estética con una forma de vida de su clase social: burguesa, 'refinada', con toques cortesanos, altaneros. La verdad, sus últimos cuentos (de la colección), en su gran mayoría, de tinte cristiano (menos de 20 pags.), ni me los he leído: no soporto su beatería. En sus principales relatos no es tan pesada ni llega a ser, para un ateo convencido, tan burdamente estúpida. Es más, mantiene esa cristiana pero burguesa preocupación por los pobres, con un toque de hermosura idealista y victoriana. Aun así, merece la pena leerlos, y leería, sobre todo, esos primeros volúmenes de cuentos, la mitad prácticamente, a mis hijos. Como cuentos, sin ser católico ni cristianos, son por lo general bellos y recomendables. Eso sí, no he encontrado a un gran Oscar Wilde que he escuchado generalmente, salvo por su gran belleza en esos cuentos infantiles. E incluso algunos de esos 'más para adultos' tienen ese fino punto para ser leído para niños, como el Fantasma de Canterbury, que es también jocoso... Que por cierto, tenía un buen sentido del humor este hombre y me ha sorprendido.

[Joan Sebastián Araujo Arenas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cada cuento de Wilde es distinto, aunque, si lo pienso bien, creo distinguir tres etapas o estilos marcados:

I) Los de juventud: Esta primera etapa está compuesta por El príncipe feliz y otros cuentos. Estos cuentos podrían considerarse dirigidos a los niños ―seguro los concibió para Cyril y Vyvyan, sus hijos― y que, además, podrían considerarse fábulas dado que, explícitamente o no, tienen una moraleja.

II) Intermedio: Esta segunda etapa está compuesta por Una casa de granadas. Estos ya no están dirigidos a los niños, lo que quiere decir que quizá no podrían leerlos y comprenderlos cabalmente por si solos, sino que necesitarían ayuda de sus padres. Otro detalle respecto a estas historias: la moraleja, si la tienen, no es tan importante. Parece que en este caso importa más el estilo que el contenido.

III) Los de madurez: Etapa conformada por...

El resto de la reseña se encuentra en mi blog: https://jsaaopinionpersonal.wordpress...

[Esma T · Rating 4 out of 5]

Toplu Öyküler genel olarak güzel bir kitaptı, bazı hikayeleri çok sevdim, bazılarını ise sevdiğimi pek söyleyemem. Benim öykü türü ile aram pek iyi değil, seviyorum ama uzunca roman okumak öncelikli tercihim. Kitap güzeldi, ince taşlamalar, zekice ayrıntılar vardı ancak çok iyi bulmadım ben, biraz eksik yönleri vardı öykülerin. Özellikle sona doğru yer alan hikayeler fazla masalsı ve çocuk yaştaki insanlara uygundu. Yine de Oscar Wilde'ın öykülerini okumak isteyenlere tavsiye ederim. Zaten kitabın dili çok akıcı, sayfalar hızla akıyor gidiyor.

Daha fazlası için; http://yorumatolyesi.blogspot.com/201...

[Olga · Rating 4 out of 5]

Oscar Wilde es uno de los mejores escritores que he leído en mi vida. Me hizo llorar con el ruiseñor y la rosa.

4,5 estrellas.


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[Emrah Şakar · Rating 4 out of 5]

oscar wilde'ın masallarının ve mensur şiirlerinin toplandığı eser. okuması kolay, dinlendirici, terapi etkisi yaratan çok hoş bir derleme olmuş.

masal türünün tüm özelliklerini taşıyan ve güzel bir biçimde yansıtan eserleri bir çırpıda okuyup bitirmek mümkün. tek bir masal yoktu okurken sıkıldığım.

evrensel doğruları, karşılıksız iyiliği, beklentisiz sevgiyi ve bu gibi genelgeçer erdemleri konu alan masallar okudukça yüzünüzde bir tebessüm bırakıyor.

türün yapısı gereği çok fazla edebi kaygı barındırmadığı için okumaya başlarken bunun bir masal kitabı olduğunu unutmayın.

[Efe · Rating 3 out of 5]

Oscar Wilde'a duyduğum hayranlığı dünyada kimseye duymuyorumdur herhalde. Neticede okuduğum en iyi kitabın (Dorian Gray'in Portresi) yazarı! Nezdimdeki olağanüstü yüksek kredisine rağmen ne yazık ki bu derlemenin sonunu zor getirdim. Hikayelerini de masallarını da genel olarak sevmedim. Elbette tipik Wilde alaycılığının bol kahkahalı enfes örneklerine, ışıl ışıl birey ve toplum eleştirilerine yer yer rastlayıp hayranlığınızı sürdürecek rüzgarı yakalıyorsunuz ama eserin genel düzeyi insana hiç de yeterli gelmiyor. Belki de beklentim çok yüksek olduğundan böyle oldu.

Sondaki mensur şiirler ise tek kelimeyle harikaydı. Ne yazık ki çok kısalar ve sayıları çok az. Kitabın çok küçük bir kısmını teşkil ediyorlar. Onların dimağımda bıraktığı belli belirsiz tat kitabı kurtarmaya yeterli gelmedi.

Siz siz olun, Wilde'a bu kitapla başlamayın!

[Nadja · Rating 2 out of 5]

I almost can't believe how much I didn't enjoy most of these stories. And I wasn't aware how Christian Oscar Wilde was.

The Happy Prince and Other Tales
The Happy Prince: ★★★☆☆
The Nightingale and The Rose: ★★☆☆☆
The Selfish Giant: ★★☆☆☆
The Devoted Friend: ★★☆☆☆
The Remarkable Rocket: ★☆☆☆☆

The Portrait of Mr. W. H.
The Portrait of Mr. W. H.: ★★★☆☆

A House of Pomegranates
The Young King: ★☆☆☆☆
The Birthday of the Infanta: ★☆☆☆☆
The Fisherman and His Soul: ★☆☆☆☆
The Star Child: ★★☆☆☆

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories
Lord Arthur Savile's Crime: ★★★★☆
The Sphinx Without a Secret: ★★☆☆☆
The Canterville Ghost: ★★★☆☆
The Model Millionaire: ★★★★☆

Poems in Prose: ★☆☆☆☆

[prashant · Rating 4 out of 5]

one of the best collections of short stories i’ve read we love you gay boy wilde

[Javi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Vaya experiencia, la sensibilidad que se encuentra en estas páginas es única.

[Juan Duarte · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinante obra.
La versión que leí incluía:

El crimen de lord Arthur Saville
El fabtasma de Canterville
El natalicio de la Infanta
El ruiseñor y la rosa (mi favorito)
El amigo fiel
El principe feliz
El famoso cohete
El joven rey
El niño astro
El gigante egoista
La piel de naranja
El modelo millonario
El pescador y su alma
La esfinge sin secreto

[Carmen · Rating 5 out of 5]

Me ha encantado,si tengo que destacar uno de los cuentos es sin duda, el pescador y su alma, es mi favorito, Óscar Wilde me ha hecho reflexionar y soñar despierta al mismo tiempo, estoy ya pensando en una relectura

[Rao Javed · Rating 5 out of 5]

Wilde Wilde shinning bring, in the literature of every time
What mortal hand or eye could frame thy fearful symmetry

[F.R. · Rating 3 out of 5]

I’ve always had a suspicion that Oscar Wilde is a prime example of style over substance. Yes the writing is arch and clever, the epigrams are well crafted and plentiful – but is there really anything else there? Is his fiction merely just an excuse for Oscar to show off his brilliant intelligence and keen wit? Is there much else going on behind that?

It’s something I raise knowing I’ll never reach a satisfactory answer, but this collection does contain examples for both the defence and the prosecution.

Take ‘The Portrait of Mr W.H.’, which is about literary theories and frauds built onto Shakespeare’s name. In other hands this could have been a serious and thoughtful essay, and whereas Wilde is bright enough to see there are serious points to be made, he mainly chooses to be flip and glib and shy away from them all. Furthermore the twists are obvious, the literary theory feels like it’s been clumsily inserted and the whole thing ends up resembling no more than the work of a clever sixth former.

But then we come to ‘Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime’, which is a cracking tale and one of the best ruminations on fate which exists in fiction. Although it’s clearly written by Wilde, it has the required seriousness to tackle the subject but also a dainty lightness in the prose. It’s a tale I greatly admire. The same is true for ‘The Canterville Ghost’, which is the kind of comic ghost story that Charles Addams or Tim Burton would enjoy. Again it’s Wilde, but hasn’t been subsumed by the Wildean.

The jury on style over substance therefore remains out.

Also of note in this collection are the children’s tales – ‘The Happy Prince’ and so on. Years after I first read them I remain unconvinced though. Yes they have their moments and there’s a nice line of cruelty within them, but they always feel somewhat pompous and sanctimonious to me. And Wilde doesn’t do hectoring all that well.

There are a number of other insubstantial sketches in this book, but the presence of ‘Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime’ and ‘The Canterville Ghost’ means that even a doubter like myself has to acknowledge that there were moments when Wilde was as brilliant as he though he was.

[Tasnim Dewan Orin · Rating 5 out of 5]

আমাকে যদি জিজ্ঞেস করা হয় কার ছোট গল্প আমার জীবনে অনেক বেশী প্রভাব রেখেছে আমাকে নিঃসন্দেহে অস্কার ওয়াল্ডের নাম নিতে হবে। তার লিখা "The Happy Prince", "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Remarkable Rocket" এবং "The Selfish Giant". কিছু প্রিয় উক্তি আমি তুলে ধরলাম
“Travel improves the mind wonderfully, and does away with all one’s prejudices.”
“Common sense, indeed!” said the Rocket indignantly; “you forget that I am very uncommon, and very remarkable. Why, anybody can have common sense, provided that they have no imagination. But I have imagination, for I never think of things as they really are; I always think of them as being quite different. As for keeping myself dry, there is evidently no one here who can at all appreciate an emotional nature. Fortunately for myself, I don’t care. The only thing that sustains one through life is the consciousness of the immense inferiority of everybody else, and this is a feeling that I have always cultivated.”
“Dear little Swallow,” said the Prince, “you tell me of marvellous things, but more marvellous than anything is the suffering of men and of women. There is no Mystery so great as Misery. ”
“What I a silly thing Love is,” said the Student as he walked away. “It is not half as useful as Logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to Philosophy and study Metaphysics.”

[Mohammad · Rating 3 out of 5]

وایلد با آنکه فاقد خصوصیت آثار نویسندگان کلاسیک است؛ ولی هوشمندی، طبع بذله‌گو و ذوق طنزنویسی او که توانسته از عصر خود تصویری مسخره‌آمیز بسازد، مانع کهنگی آثارش شده. از بین تمام داستان‌های اسکار وایلد که در این مجموعه جمع شده، به ترتیب از کتاب‌ خانه‌ی انار، کتاب جنایت لرد آرتور ساویل و کتاب شاهزاده‌ی خوشحال لذت بردم. موقع خواندن داستان شاهزاده‌ی خوشحال غمگین شدم و به اختیار خودم پایانش را تغییر دادم: قلب شاهزاده توی کوره ذوب می‌شود و هیچوقت به بهشت نمی‌رسد. این پایان واقعی‌تر است

[Johan Alexander · Rating 4 out of 5]

Qué placer me produce leer el trabajo de Oscar Wilde.
Fascinante recopilación de relatos, qué manera de hacer reflexionar al lector.
¡Lo recomiendo sin lugar a duda!

[Diana Lagunas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Un beso a Oscar Wilde dondequiera que esté.
Le daría mil estrellas si pudiera.

[Ms Lecturas · Rating 5 out of 5]

Siempre es un placer leer a Oscar Wilde.
Cada uno de los cuentos de esta colección me ha encantado. En cada uno de ellos se percibe perfectamente la época personal que pasaba el autor en el momento de escribirlo.
Ahora, he de decir que la última de las partes del libro (poemas en prosa), aunque es cortita, me ha enamorado de principio a fin.
Muy recomendable.
📖❤️

[Rui Lucas · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gostei muito do livro, mas especialmente dos contos mais no estilo moderno. O meu preferido é sem dúvida o "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime", mas o Fantasma de Canterville também é muito bom (de forma diferente, muito mais satírico). As melhores fábulas são as mais curtinhas, as mais longas tendem a ser um pouco chatas. Os contos bíblicos são muito bons, e adotam quer uma postura cínica quer uma postura de abertura à Fé.