The complete fictional works Oscar Wilde

All these stories demonstrate extensive knowledge, solid craftsmanship, rooted talent, and complete dominance over the well-structured narrative construction of the story, revealing the novelist Oscar Wilde's ability to weave his tales, build his characters, and choose his topics. The reader feels that behind these stories is a hand that knows what it is writing and understands what it is creating... The writer is always experimenting with narration, presentation, plot, theme, and techniques used, just as he was constantly developing himself. This comprehensive collection showcases Oscar Wilde's remarkable storytelling skills and his astonishing versatility, ranging from fairy tales and ghost stories to detective plots and satirical tales. Most of these stories had previously been published when Wilde was famous as a playwright. The stories offer captivating expressions of the themes that dominated Wilde's life and mind, and the behind-the-scenes of his psychological worlds that later produced his most famous works.