Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories - Couverture souple

Oscar Wilde (1854 – 1900) was an Irish writer and poet. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is remembered for his epigrams, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, his plays, and the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of short semi-comic mystery stories. *Lord Arthur Savile's Crime *The Canterville Ghost *The Sphinx Without a Secret *The Model Millionaire

Known for his barbed wit, Oscar Wilde was one of the most successful late-Victorian playwrights and a great celebrity. The Importance of Being Earnest and The Picture of Dorian Gray are among his best known works. He is perhaps most famous for his trial, in which he eloquently defended homosexual love and was sentenced to two years of hard labor.