false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167204699m/19398.jpg 19398 14 For the first time in one volume, this complete collection of all the short fiction Oscar Wilde published contains such social and literary parodies as "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" and "The Canterville Ghost;" such well-known fairy tales as "The Happy Prince," "The Young King," and "The<br>Fisherman and his Soul;" an imaginary portrait of the dedicatee of Shakespeare's Sonnets entitled "The Portrait of Mr. W.H.;" and the parables Wilde referred to as "Poems in Prose," including "The Artist," "The House of Judgment," and "The Teacher of Wisdom." 2064181 1979 Complete Shorter Fiction (Oxford World's Classics) total:167|5:55|4:78|3:30|2:4|1:0| 167 685 287 14 4 1 false false Sat Mar 21 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Mar 18 06:30:50 -0700 2009 Sun Mar 22 02:31:09 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Jun 29 15:14:44 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 02 10:27:27 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Dec 23 20:45:12 -0800 2008 Fri Dec 26 17:08:53 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 true false Sat Aug 08 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 11:22:57 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 08 12:39:48 -0700 2009 A few of the stories demonstrated the social commentary I was expecting, but on the whole the stories were more Aesop than Saki.
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