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Oprah Summer 2010
The Canterville Ghost <i>and</i> Other Stories by Oscar Wilde THE CANTERVILLE GHOST AND OTHER STORIES
by Oscar Wilde
read by Donada Peters
Classic Literature • Unabridged
Format EAN/ISBN Avail. Price Sale Qty.
4 CDs* 9780786171934 YES $36.00 $18.00
1 MP3CD 9780786176526 YES $19.95 NA
4 Tapes* 9780786145119 YES $34.95 $17.48
* packaged in a sturdy vinyl case.
Book ID(3697) - 4.3 hrs (est.), Published - 02/01/06
DESCRIPTION

Oscar Wilde was a prolific and spontaneous storyteller who once declared, “I cannot think otherwise than in stories.” Here are a handful of his shorter works that demonstrate his range, versatility, and skill as a storyteller, too often overshadowed by his reputation as a dramatist, critical theorist, and novelist.

Wilde shows his wit in the social parodies “The Canterville Ghost,” “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime,” “The Sphinx without a Secret,” and “The Model Millionare.” In “The Portrait of Mr. W.H.,” he identifies the mysterious dedicatee of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Finally, the collection is rounded out by a selection of well known fairy tales, including “The Happy Prince,” “The Nightingale and the Rose,” “The Selfish Giant,” and “The Devoted Friend.”



REVIEWS

“Oscar Wilde’s writing remains fresh, alive, electric. His words stride off the page to grab us by the lapels and demand that we pay attention. ‘You’ve got to listen to what I’m about to tell you,’ they insist. And we do, gladly.”—Ralph Keyes, author of The Wit and Wisdom of Oscar Wilde

“[A] classic of Wildean wit and Victorian sentimentality....a delight.”—Booklist



OSCAR WILDE, (1854-1900), was born in Dublin and died in Paris. In between he lived flamboyantly, writing poems, short stories, plays, and one novel that were both critically successful and socially criticized for their radical ideas.



* packaged in a sturdy vinyl case.
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