Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other StoriesStandard Ebooks This collection of short “mystery” stories by Oscar Wilde was originally published in 1891 and was his second published collection of stories. This edition follows the 1907 edition, which was published after his death and added “The Portrait of Mr. W. H.,” a story first published in 1899. Written around the same time as The Picture of Dorian Gray and before he turned his hand to playwriting, these stories showcase the quintessential Wilde: dark irony combined with an incisive dissection of Victorian society, with just a hint of the supernatural added to amuse and engage his Victorian audience. This book is part of the Standard Ebooks project, which produces free public domain ebooks. |
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... terrible mystery of Destiny, of the awful meaning of Doom. How mad and monstrous it all seemed! Could it be that written on his hand, in characters that he could not read himself, but that another could decipher, was some fearful secret ...
... terrible mystery of Destiny, of the awful meaning of Doom. How mad and monstrous it all seemed! Could it be that written on his hand, in characters that he could not read himself, but that another could decipher, was some fearful secret ...
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... terrible pity that is born of love . He felt that to marry her , with the doom of murder hanging over his head , would be a betrayal like that of Judas , a sin worse than any the Borgia had ever dreamed of . What happiness could there ...
... terrible pity that is born of love . He felt that to marry her , with the doom of murder hanging over his head , would be a betrayal like that of Judas , a sin worse than any the Borgia had ever dreamed of . What happiness could there ...
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... terrible though the task laid upon him undoubtedly was, yet he knew that he must not suffer selfishness to triumph over love. Sooner or later we are all called upon to decide on the same issue —of us all, the same question is asked. To ...
... terrible though the task laid upon him undoubtedly was, yet he knew that he must not suffer selfishness to triumph over love. Sooner or later we are all called upon to decide on the same issue —of us all, the same question is asked. To ...
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... terrible difficulty, from which neither honour nor duty would allow him to recede. He told her that the marriage must be put off for the present, as until he had got rid of his fearful entanglements, he was not a free man. He implored ...
... terrible difficulty, from which neither honour nor duty would allow him to recede. He told her that the marriage must be put off for the present, as until he had got rid of his fearful entanglements, he was not a free man. He implored ...
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... what he had done , and it seemed to him a curious coincidence that Sybil , for whose sake he had gone through all that terrible anxiety , should have been the first to remind him of it . “Of course you can have it, Sybil. I gave it.
... what he had done , and it seemed to him a curious coincidence that Sybil , for whose sake he had gone through all that terrible anxiety , should have been the first to remind him of it . “Of course you can have it, Sybil. I gave it.
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