书名：The Complete Short Fiction 王尔德短篇小说全集
作者：Oscar Wilde奥斯卡·王尔德
出版社名称：Penguin Classics
出版时间：2003
语种：英文
ISBN：9780141439693
商品尺寸：12.7 x 2 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：280

奥斯卡·王尔德，英国英国作家、戏剧家、诗人，以小说、童话、戏剧、诗歌闻名，其作品唯美而富有深邃的哲学思想，一直广为流传。The Complete Short Fiction《王尔德短篇小说全集》收录了王尔德在19世纪80至90年代期间发表的各种作品，非常适合文学爱好者或英语学习者阅读收藏。
推荐理由：
1.王尔德重要作品集，含《快乐王子》《夜莺与玫瑰》和《亚瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行》等文学作品；
2.由伯明翰大学教授Ian Small作序，介绍了作者及写作背景，帮助读者深入理解原文内容；
3.企鹅黑皮经典系列，内容完整无删节，书后附词汇注释。
Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction and comedies of manners—the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde’s name as a writer of fiction, showing breathtaking dexterity in a wide range of literary styles. Victorian moral justice is comically inverted in “Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime” and “The Canterville Ghost,” and society’s materialism comes under sharp, humorous criticism in “The Model Millionaire,” while “The Happy Prince” and “The Nightingale and the Rose” are hauntingly melancholic in their magical evocations of selfless love. These small masterpieces convey the brilliance of Wilde’s vision, exploring complex moral issues through an elegant juxtaposition of wit and sentiment. 
This edition includes thecomplete texts ofWilde’s three volumes of short fiction, together with“The Portrait of Mr W.H.’. lan Small’s introduction discussesWilde’s life, the cultural and literary background to his fiction and the complex ways in which it can be read.
Edited with an introduction and notes by IAN SMALL

The Complete Short Fiction《王尔德短篇小说全集》收录了王尔德在1880s-1890s期间创作的作品，包含童话故事集《快乐王子与其他故事》（1888）、短篇小说集《亚瑟·萨维尔勋爵的罪行及其他故事》（1891）和《石榴屋》（1891）。此外，还收录了其在”布莱克伍德爱丁堡杂志”（1889）发行的一些诗歌、散文、短文等内容。
This volume ofOscar Wilde’s short fiction collects those stories originally published in 1880s and early 1890s. Most appeared first in periodicals and were then collected in three separate books:The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888),Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and other Stories (1891) andA Houseof Pomegranates (1891). This volume prints in additionWilde’s“Poems in Prose” and“The Portrait of Mr. W. H.” – a periodical essay, part-fiction and part-literary criticism, published in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine in 1889.

Born in Ireland,Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was educated in Dublin and Oxford and went on to become the leading exponent of aestheticism. His work includes plays, a novel, poetry and criticism. Imprisoned for homosexual acts, he died after his release in exile in Paris.
IAN SMALL is professor of English Literature at the University of Birmingham. His publication include Condition for Criticism: Authority, Knowledge, and Literature in the Nineteenth Century (1991), Oscar Wilde Revalued (1993) andOscar Wilde’s Profession: Writing and the Culture Industry in the LateNineteenth Century (2001). In 1992 he edited (with Marcus Walsh) The Theory and Practice of Text-Editing.

Chronology
Introduction
Further Reading
ANote on the Texts
The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888)
The Happy Prince
The Nightingale and the Rose
The Selfish Giant
The Devoted Friend
The Remarkable Rocket
The Portrait of Mr. W. H. (1889)
A Houseof Pomegranates (1891)
The Young King
The Birthday of the Infanta
The Fisherman and His Soul
The Star-Child
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and other Stories (1891)
Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime
The Sphinx Without a Secret
The Canterville Ghost
The Model Millionaire
Poems in Prose (1894)
The Artist
The Doer of Good
The Disciple
The Master
The House of Judgment
The Teacher of Wisdom
Appendix
“Elder-tree” (fragment)
Notes

THE HAPPY PRINCE
High above the city, on a tall column, stood the statue of the Happy Prince. He was gilded all over with thin leaves of fine gold, for eyes he had two bright sapphires, and a large red ruby glowed on his sword-hilt.
He was very much admired indeed. “He is as beautiful as a weathercock,” remarked one of the Town Councillors who wished to gain a reputation for having artistic tastes; “only not quite so useful,” he added, fearing lest people should think him unpractical, which he really was not.
“Why can’t you be like the Happy Prince?” asked a sensible mother of her little boy who was crying for the moon. “The Happy Prince never dreams of crying for anything.”
“I am glad there is some one in the world who is quite happy,” muttered a disappointed man as he gazed at the wonderful statue.
“He looks just like an angel,” said the Charity Children as they came out of the cathedral in their bright scarlet cloaks and their clean white pinafores.
“How do you know?” said the Mathematical Master,“you have never seen one.” “Ah! But we have, in our dreams,” answered the children; and the Mathematical Master frowned and looked very severe, for he did not approve of children dreaming.