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A review by kieralesley
Complete Short Fiction by Oscar Wilde
4.0
Delightful!
All of these felt like classics reading them, like old fables that you learn by heart so you've got a story up your sleeve when you're asked to tell one. They're all well crafted and often fun, with strong moral commentary and a sense of irony. The culture is old and different, but I didn't find myself needing to look at the explanatory notes at all, because the stories were about people and attitudes which don't get lost over time.
I liked all everything here except The Portrait of Mr W.H. - because I've never really gotten the obsession with Shakespeare's sonnets conspiracies - and the prose poems at the end didn't do much for me. A really wonderful read.
All of these felt like classics reading them, like old fables that you learn by heart so you've got a story up your sleeve when you're asked to tell one. They're all well crafted and often fun, with strong moral commentary and a sense of irony. The culture is old and different, but I didn't find myself needing to look at the explanatory notes at all, because the stories were about people and attitudes which don't get lost over time.
I liked all everything here except The Portrait of Mr W.H. - because I've never really gotten the obsession with Shakespeare's sonnets conspiracies - and the prose poems at the end didn't do much for me. A really wonderful read.