Oscar Wilde

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and other stories (Annotated) Oscar Wilde

Differentiated book- It has a historical context with research of the time-The purpose of realizing this historical context is to approach the understanding of a historical epoch from the elements provided by the text. Hence the importance of placing the document in context. It is necessary to unravel what its author or authors have said, how it has been said, when, why and where, always relating it to its historical moment. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories, is a storybook published in 1891 by Oscar Wilde. It is considered a continuation of The Happy Prince and other tales, chronologically. The stories included are: -LORD ARTHUR SAVILE'S CRIME-THE CANTERVILLE GHOST-THE SPHINX WITHOUT A SECRET-THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE-THE PORTRAIT OF MR. W. H. Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854 - November 30, 1900) Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde, was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, in the early 1890s he became one of London's most popular playwrights. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, and the circumstances of his criminal conviction for "gross indecency", imprisonment, and premature death at age 46.