The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Short Stories

The Picture of Dorian Gray and Other Short Stories is a compilation of short stories by Oscar Wilde along with his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. It was originally published in 1888 under the title Stories: Oscar Wilde. Some of the short stories within include The Sphinx Without a Secret The Model Millionaire and stories from the previously-published collections A House of Pomegranates and The Happy Prince and Other Tales. This book is sure to interest Oscar Wilde fans and fans of Victorian literature. OSCAR WILDE (1854-1900) was a celebrated Irish-born playwright short story writer poet and personality in Victorian London. He is best known for his involvement in the aesthetic movement and his only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray as well as his many plays such as Lady Windermeres Fan The Importance of Being Ernest A Woman of No Importance An Ideal Husband and Salomé. During his imprisonment for gross indecency he wrote De Profundis and later The Ballad of Reading Gao.