Знание Lord Arthur Saviles Crime and Other Stories Вайльд Преступление лорда Артура Севайла и другие

The proposed book is a collection of the best known stories by the outstanding English writer and playwright Oscar Wilde (1851—1900). Beauty and art thrilled and inspired the author for creating masterpieces, but most of all he was interested in eccentricity — which is why ghosts and chiromancers, model millionaires and Shakespeare’s muses appear before the reader. The writer, with peculiar only to him ironic manner, combines the bitterness of disillusionment with the imperfection of the world and subtle ridicule. The aphoristic character of descriptions and exquisite style — that is what distinguishes his works among other ones, and especially is manifested in short prose.

Oscar Wilde’s unique talent showed itself not only in his novels and plays but also in his stories, various in themes and portrayed personages. They are united by their invariable irony with which the author covers even the most serious problems and interesting observations over the psychology of the society incarnated in sophisticated images and neat remarks. The story about Lord Savile may seem captivating, the tragedy of a lone ghost — even amusing, and short sketches of the life of the Bohemians and the tale about Shakespeare's muse — intellectually dainty; at the same time they all have that extra something which will forever leave its mark on the reader's memory.
 

В данной книге собраны самые известные рассказы выдающегося английского писателя и драматурга Оскара Вайльда (1854—1900). Красота и искусство восхищали и вдохновляли автора на написание шедевров, но больше всего его интересует неординарность — поэтому и предстают перед читателю призрака и хироманты, натурники-миллионеры и музы Шекспира. Писатель в присущей только ему ироничной манере сочетает горечь разочарования совершенством мира и тонкую насмешку. Афористичность описания и изысканный стиль — то, что отличает его произведения из среды других и особенно проявляется в короткой прозе.