These short stories, collectively and individually, are brilliant and clearly demonstrate Oscar Wilde’s genius, his versatility and his skill as a writer.

In most of his fairy tales and short stories Oscar Wilde attempted a seriousness, even a sobriety, that did not quite jell with the sardonic, witty persona he was developing. My theory on the nature of Wilde's tragedy is that his persona gained inner reality, as opposed to being merely a veneer to amuse and increase sales of his books, while the serious values suffered atrophy.

The serious values are conveyed in a few of the fairy tales, particularly "The Happy Prince" and "The Rose and the Nightingale," through a combination of humorous irony and fierce poignancy redolent of Hans Christian Anderson. These values come to the fore completely in "The Canterville Ghost." The editor, Ian Small, claims this is a parody of ghost stories, but it is really, despite much humor, a somber, heartfelt story of redemption made possible by a child's faith. It's the star of all of his short fiction.

Stories like "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" and "The Model Millionaire" are, for my money, piffle; these are parodies, and heartless ones.

But, as Oscar Wilde is the author, all the stories are for that reason indispensable.

I really ejoyed this book, even though we can't say the stories have happy endings.

In fact, it was quite the contrary. But all of them had important messages to give us and that gave a whole new meaning to everything that happened.

My favourites were The Happy Prince , The Nightingale And The Rose and The Selfish Giant .

They were all stories of selfless love and who can resist that?

one of the best collections of short stories i’ve read we love you gay boy wilde

From Oscar Wilde I had only read before this one "The picture of Dorian Gray" and his plays and had more or less an idea of his aesthetics and his prose. I found him peculiar in the way he stated his ideas and of his perspectives and opinions on all the matters, from art, to youth, and politics. But it was never any more than that, peculiar, but could not really find any thing that made him surpass the line of a mere intellectual exercise or pose. Most of the works I had read were merely that, a polemical and often satirical statement, nothing more.

His short stories, however, are easily his most achieved literary works. The happy prince, The fisherman and his soul, the selfish giant, the young king, or the start child, are pieces that have such a level of sensitivity that one cannot help crying at the end of each one. A colorful mix between the stories of Andersen with the oldest from the Arabian nights, but told in a fashion that evokes feeling long forgotten by our humanity but still present since the very first time a human being touch this Earth.

Each one of these stories deserves a proper and meticulous essay if one wants to get to the deepest core of them, in case that is even possible, which I doubt. The most appropriate we can do, I believe, is to read them , and re read them, and fall in love with literature, with life, with the sound of the wind and the pale face of the moon and the roses.

Some stories are weak, otherwise I would've given 5/5 ratings. The Happy Prince, The Remarkable Rocket, Lord Arthur Saville's Crime, The Canterville Ghost, and The Model Millionaire are extraordinary stories, and The Portrait of Mr. W.H. is simply a great work of fiction.

"Ruh, ıssız kumsalda durup onları seyretti." (s.108)

Son derece sıcak, bilgelikle yüklü, keyifli öyküler ve masallar bunlar. Çocukluğumda okuduğum rengarenk dünyalara kapımı açan masal kitaplarını hatırlattı bana. Bu vesileyle tekrar çocukluğuma dönmemi sağladı.
Öykülerin kimi zaman hüznü aynı zamanda mizahi unsurlarla kaynaştırabilmesi büyük bir edebi dehayı gösteriyor. Özellikle "hortlak" temalı öyküyü (ya da masalı) okurken çok eğlendim. Bu öyküde satır aralarında aynı zamanda Amerikan dünya görüşü ile İngiliz dünya görüşünü karşılaştırması dikkatimden kaçmadı.
Nar Evi başlıklı masaldaki renkli dünya; bana Binbir Gece Masalları'nı hatırlattı. Yorumumu bu öyküden bir bölüm ile bitirmek istiyorum:

"Kentin içi aynı bir çarşıya benzer. Keşke benimle birlikte olsaydın. Dar sokaklara gerilmiş rengarenk kağıt fenerler, iri kelebekler gibi oynaşır. Rüzgar damların üstünden estiği zaman, fenerler renkli su kabarcıkları gibi yükselip alçalır. Esnaf, dükkanların önünde, ipek halılar üzerinde oturur. Uzun siyah sakalları vardır, sarıkları altın pullarla kaplıdır ve serin parmaklarının arasından, kehribar boncuklu uzun tespihlerini kaydırırlar." (s.114)

Love Wilde’s style (Lego movie reference???), even if it is a bit arduous. Romanticizes the hell out of suicide. He for sure gets love right tho :,)

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I am torn about this one.
It is The Complete Short Stories of Oscar Wilde.
But in actuality it should be titled Fables, Fairytales and a few Short Stories.
I personally am not drawn to fables or fairytales. Maybe it could have to do with the very frightening illustrations that usually would accompany such tales.
But I do, however, love the writing of Wilde.
And therefore feel that fables and fairytales written by him are probably as good as they can get.

4.5 de diyebilirim aslında. İçinde basit ama etkileyici bir o kadar da ders verici (ama -demek ki neymiş şunu şunu yapmıyormuşuz- tarzında değil) öyküler vardı. Oscar Wilde'ı gerçekten hayranlıkla okuyorum. Favorim de tabii ki Mutlu Prens, Bülbül ve Gül ve Sanatçı öyküleriydi. Kısa olan Sanatçı öyküsünü İnternet'te bulabilirseniz mutlaka okuyun derim. Diğer Wilde kitapları kütüphanemde beni bekler...

Worth it just for the story of the Canterville Ghost.

Tek kelime ile bayıldım. Uzun zamandır masal okumuyordum, ruhuma o kadar iyi geldi ki.. hatta Yıldız-Cocuk masalını okurken çocuklarıma da anlattım, onlar da ilgiyle dinlediler.
Ote yandan favorim Canterville Hortlağı. bir Ingiliz malikanesini satin alan Amerikali bir aile ile malikanede yuzyillardir yasayan hortlak arasinda gecenleri anlatiyor oyku. Hortlagın hissettijleri, satir aralarındaki Amerikalilara laf atmalar, cok eglenceli bir okuma oldu. Tavsiye ederim.