by Oscar Wilde · Longman · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780175565429
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«Lord Arthur Savile's Crime» is Oscar Wilde's story, published by Longman in paperback (40 pages, in English).
Lord Arthur Savile, a young aristocrat about to marry, learns from a chiromancer that he is destined to commit murder. Before marrying, he decides to fulfill his supposed destiny and tries several plans that prove unsuccessful and increasingly extravagant, in a satire on free will and the moral rigidity of Victorian society.
Abridged edition from the Nelson English Readers Library series, with a 600-word vocabulary. The original story appeared in 1887; this edition dates from 1993.
Intended for students of English as a foreign language and for beginner-level readers wishing to approach Oscar Wilde's work.
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.
