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. Includes the classic fiction The Time Machine, The Country of the Blind, The Empire of the Ants, Tales of Space and Time, The Plattner Story, and others. 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. In this volume, we present a complete collection of his short stories. However, Saki did not have any interest in safeguarding the Edwardian way of life. His stories, 'true enough to be interesting and not true enough to be tiresome', were considered ideal reading for schoolboys. He was a misogynist, anti-semite, and reactionary, who also did not take himself too serious.
Saki's most frequently anthologized short stories are Tobermory', 'Sredni Vastar', 'The Unrest Cure' etc. In his early stories, Saki often portrayed eccentric characters, familiar from Oscar Wilde's plays. His best tales are often more macabre than Kipling's. Saki (Hector Hugh Munro) is best known for his witty, sometimes whimsical, often cynical and bizarre short stories.
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