Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories

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"Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories" is a collection of darkly comic and macabre short stories by Oscar Wilde that showcase his wit, satire, and fascination with Victorian morals and manners.

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instanceOf book
short story collection
author Oscar Wilde
containsWork Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories self-linksurface differs
surface form: Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime

The Canterville Ghost
The Model Millionaire
The Sphinx Without a Secret
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
criticalReception praised for wit and irony
firstPublicationYear 1891
form prose
genre dark comedy
macabre fiction
satire
short stories
hasAdaptation film adaptations of The Canterville Ghost
radio adaptations of stories
stage adaptations of The Canterville Ghost
hasDigitalVersion available via online public-domain libraries
hasIllustrations no
hasISBN various editions with different ISBNs
influenced later comic ghost stories
language English
literaryMovement Aestheticism
literaryPeriod Victorian literature
literaryStyle epigrammatic prose
witty dialogue
mainCharacterInContainedWork Lord Arthur Savile
The Canterville Ghost
surface form: Sir Simon de Canterville
narrativePerspective third-person narration in most stories
notableFor combination of macabre plots and humor
satire of Victorian upper-class society
originalMedium print
originalTitle Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories self-link
partOfAuthorOeuvre Oscar Wilde’s prose fiction
publicDomainStatus public domain in many countries
publisher James R. Osgood & Co.
surface form: James R. Osgood, McIlvaine & Co.
settingPeriod late Victorian era
targetAudience adult readers
theme Victorian morals
class and status
crime and conscience
marriage and society
social hypocrisy
supernatural elements

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Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories containsWork Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories originalTitle Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories self-link