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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 It also includes the first full edition of Wilde's expanded version of 'The Portrait of Mr W.H.', unpublished in Wilde's lifetime.
List 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
About the author
Ian Small has spent most of his academic career in the English Department at the University of Birmingham, although he has held a number of visiting posts at universities throughout the world, particularly in the USA. He has written widely on late nineteenth-century English and Irish literary culture and on issues in literary and text-theory. Has been the general editor of the multi-volume Oxford English Texts edition of the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde since its inception almost twenty years ago.
Summary
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 It also includes the first full edition of Wilde's expanded version of 'The Portrait of Mr W.H.', unpublished in Wilde's lifetime.
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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
