![]() Henry & Maupassant will be remembered for their short stories. Short stories have always fascinated the readers throughout the world. Package Dimensions: 21.2 x 13.6 x 1.8 cmīuy at.This volume contains Oscar Wilde's only novel, 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' and all other stories. It contains the famous passage : 'Books are well written, or badly written. Oscar Wilde wrote a preface, which appeared separately in the Fortnightly Review in March 1891. 'It is a tale spawned from the leprous literature of the French decadents - a poisoned book, the atmosphere of which is heavy with mephitic odours of moral and spiritual putrefaction', wrote the critic from the Daily Chronicle. ![]() His only novel, "The Picture of Dorian Gray' was published in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890 and provoked a storm of protest from the Victorian society. The world in which Oscar Wilde lived was riddled with hypocrisy and he exposed it in his writings. Oscar Wilde was a genius and he transformed his talent into his stories, plays and poems. ![]() Somehow or other I will be famous, and if not famous, I will be notorious', declared Oscar Wilde. ![]()
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