Josef Thanner Books

Die Artemis Bibliothek präsentiert Erzählungen, Fabeln und Gleichnisse über die Wahrheit des menschlichen Daseins. Anlässlich des 60-jährigen Jubiläums des Patmos Verlagshauses wird die traditionsreiche Reihe neu aufgelegt, mit hochwertiger Gestaltung und sorgfältig edierten Texten aus der Weltliteratur von der Antike bis zum 20. Jahrhundert.

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories is a collection of four of Wilde's short stories: "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime," "The Sphinx without a Secret," "The Canterville Ghost," and "A Model Millionaire." Originally published in various London magazines in 1887, the pieces were eventually collected and published in book form in 1891. In these stories, generally described as social satires, Wilde parodied what he considered American naïveté as well as the cultural and social snobbery associated with the British aristocracy. Critics praise Wilde's literary achievement with these stories - particularly "The Canterville Ghost" and "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime"--But note the relative neglect of his short fiction in light of the notoriety of his dramas and his novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1891)