Lord Arthur Savile's Crime (Penguin Little Black Classics)

by Oscar Wilde

Paperback, 2015

Status

Available

Call number

PN6010 .L58

Publication

Penguin Classics (2015), Edition: 01, 64 pages

Description

'He was not blind to the fact that murder, like the religions of the Pagan world, requires a victim as well as a priest...'Wilde's supremely witty tale of dandies, anarchists and a murderous prophecy in London high society.Introducing Little Black Classics- 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th-century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.

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LibraryThing member TheCrow2
In this short story of Oscar Wilde Lord Savile got a prophecy that he was going to kill someone. He's just wants to be married and thinks the foretold murder has to be done before it. But is seems that it's not so easy to kill someone.....

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Physical description

64 p.; 6.34 x 4.37 inches

ISBN

0141397780 / 9780141397788

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