by Oscar Wilde · Valdemar · tapa dura · ISBN 9788477026778
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This edition of 'Complete Stories' by Oscar Wilde, edited by Mauro Armiño, presents the texts in chronological order and accompanies them with brief notes that clarify references to events or characters of the time. In these stories, one can appreciate the germ of the themes that would later dominate Oscar Wilde's theater: the detective novel and detective narration, the artistic concerns of the time, imaginative delicacy, the romanticism of feelings, the affirmation of values such as generosity, loyalty or friendship, contempt for pragmatism and mockery of vanity and pride, or the description of ruthless and cruel beauty in a story like 'The Birthday of the Infanta', which will have its most complete expression in his novel 'The Portrait of Dorian Gray' and in his best-known tragedy, 'Salome'.
Oscar Fingal O'Fflahertie Wills Wilde was an Irish author, poet and playwright. After writing in different literary styles throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular and influential dramatists in London in the early 1890s. He was a key figure in the emerging Aestheticism movement of the late 19th century and is widely regarded as the greatest playwright of the Victorian era. Wilde is best known for his Gothic novel The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), his epigrams, plays and bedtime stories for children, as well as his criminal conviction in 1895 for gross indecency and for practicing homosexual acts.
