by Oscar Wilde · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780146001604
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«The Portrait of Mr. W. H.» is a short story by Oscar Wilde, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (96 pages, in English).
The story starts from the dedication «To Mr. W. H.» of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1609), source of many theories about the identity of its addressee. Wilde turns one of those hypotheses into an ingenious fiction about obsession, interpretation and the power of art.
The work was originally published in 1889. This edition is from 1996 and belongs to the Penguin 60s Classics series.
It will appeal to readers of classic literature and to those who enjoy literary enigmas around Shakespeare.
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.
