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    Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
    Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
    Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
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    This eBook features the unabridged text of ‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories’ from the bestselling edition of ‘The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde’.

    Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. The Delphi Classics edition of Wilde includes original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of the author, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

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    Release dateJul 17, 2017
    ISBN9781786561664
    Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde (Illustrated)
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    Oscar Wilde

    Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde was born on the 16th October 1854 and died on the 30th November 1900. He was an Irish playwright, poet, and author of numerous short stories and one novel. Known for his biting wit, he became one of the most successful playwrights of the late Victorian era in London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. Several of his plays continue to be widely performed, especially The Importance of Being Earnest.

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      Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories by Oscar Wilde (Illustrated) - Oscar Wilde

      The Complete Works of

      OSCAR WILDE

      VOLUME 16 OF 41

      Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories

      Parts Edition

      By Delphi Classics, 2013

      Version 6

      COPYRIGHT

      ‘Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories’

      Oscar Wilde: Parts Edition (in 41 parts)

      First published in the United Kingdom in 2017 by Delphi Classics.

      © Delphi Classics, 2017.

      All rights reserved.  No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, without the prior permission in writing of the publisher, nor be otherwise circulated in any form other than that in which it is published.

      ISBN: 978 1 78656 166 4

      Delphi Classics

      is an imprint of

      Delphi Publishing Ltd

      Hastings, East Sussex

      United Kingdom

      Contact: sales@delphiclassics.com

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      Oscar Wilde: Parts Edition

      This eBook is Part 16 of the Delphi Classics edition of Oscar Wilde in 41 Parts. It features the unabridged text of Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories from the bestselling edition of the author’s Complete Works. Having established their name as the leading publisher of classic literature and art, Delphi Classics produce publications that are individually crafted with superior formatting, while introducing many rare texts for the first time in digital print. Our Parts Editions feature original annotations and illustrations relating to the life and works of Oscar Wilde, as well as individual tables of contents, allowing you to navigate eBooks quickly and easily.

      Visit here to buy the entire Parts Edition of Oscar Wilde or the Complete Works of Oscar Wilde in a single eBook.

      Learn more about our Parts Edition, with free downloads, via this link or browse our most popular Parts here.

      OSCAR WILDE

      IN 41 VOLUMES

      Parts Edition Contents

      The Plays

      1, Vera

      2, The Duchess of Padua

      3, Lady Windermere’s Fan

      4, A Woman of No Importance

      5, Salomé

      6, An Ideal Husband

      7, The Importance of Being Earnest

      8, La Sainte Courtisane

      9, A Florentine Tragedy

      The Poetry

      10, The Complete Poems

      The Novel

      11, The Picture of Dorian Gray - the Original 13 Chapter Version

      12, The Picture of Dorian Gray - the Revised 20 Chapter Version

      The Short Stories

      13, The Portrait of Mr. W. H.

      14, The Happy Prince and Other Tales

      15, A House of Pomegranates

      16, Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories

      The Non-Fiction

      17, The Decay of Lying

      18, Pen, Pencil and Poison - a Study in Green

      19, The Critic as Artist

      20, The Truth of Masks

      21, The Rise of Historical Criticism

      22, The English Renaissance of Art

      23, House Decoration

      24, Art and the Handicraftsman

      25, Lecture to Art Students

      26, London Models

      27, Poems in Prose

      28, The Soul of Man Under Socialism

      29, Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young

      30, A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over-Educated

      31, De Profundis

      32, Oscar Wilde’s Letter to Robert Browning

      33, Personal Impressions of America

      34, The Decorative Arts

      35, The House Beautiful

      36, The Truth of Masks

      The Journalism

      37, The Articles and Reviews

      Apocrypha

      38, Teleny

      The Biographies

      39, Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessions by Frank Harris

      40, Memories of Oscar Wilde by G. Bernard Shaw

      41, Oscar Wilde: an Idler’s Impression by Edgar Saltus

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      Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime and Other Stories

      This collection of short semi-comic mystery stories was first published in 1891.  In the title story, the main character is introduced by Lady Windermere to Mr Septimus R. Podgers, a chiromantist, who reads his palm and tells him that it is in his future that he will be a murderer. Lord Arthur wants to marry, but decides he has no right to do so until he has committed the murder.

      The first edition

      CONTENTS

      LORD ARTHUR SAVILE’S CRIME

      THE CANTERVILLE GHOST

      THE SPHINX WITHOUT A SECRET

      THE MODEL MILLIONAIRE

      Wilde, close to the time of publication

      LORD ARTHUR SAVILE’S CRIME

      CHAPTER I

      It was Lady Windermere’s last reception before Easter, and Bentinck House was even more crowded than usual.  Six Cabinet Ministers had come on from the Speaker’s Levée in their stars and ribands, all the pretty women wore their smartest dresses, and at the end of the picture-gallery stood the Princess Sophia of Carlsrühe, a heavy Tartar-looking lady, with tiny black eyes and wonderful emeralds, talking bad French at the top of her voice, and laughing immoderately at everything that was said to her.  It was certainly a wonderful medley of people.  Gorgeous peeresses chatted affably to violent Radicals, popular preachers brushed coat-tails with eminent sceptics, a perfect bevy of bishops kept following a stout prima-donna from room to room, on the staircase stood several Royal Academicians, disguised as artists, and it was said that at one time the supper-room was absolutely crammed with geniuses.  In fact, it was one of Lady Windermere’s best nights, and the Princess stayed till nearly half-past eleven.

      As soon as she had gone, Lady Windermere returned to the picture-gallery, where a celebrated political economist was solemnly explaining the scientific theory of music to an indignant virtuoso from Hungary, and began to talk to the Duchess of Paisley.  She looked wonderfully beautiful with her grand ivory throat, her large blue forget-me-not eyes, and her heavy coils of golden hair.  Or pur they were - not that pale straw colour that nowadays usurps the gracious name of gold, but such gold as is woven into sunbeams or hidden in strange amber; and they gave to her face something of the frame of a saint, with not a little of the fascination of a sinner.  She was a curious psychological study.  Early in life she had discovered the important truth that nothing looks so like innocence as an indiscretion; and by a series of reckless escapades, half of them quite harmless, she had acquired all the privileges of a personality.  She had more than once changed her husband; indeed, Debrett credits her with three marriages; but as she had never changed her lover, the world had long ago ceased to talk scandal about her.  She was now forty years of age, childless, and with that inordinate passion for pleasure which is the secret of remaining young.

      Suddenly she looked eagerly round the room, and said, in her clear contralto voice, ‘Where is my cheiromantist?’

      ‘Your what, Gladys?’ exclaimed the Duchess, giving an involuntary start.

      ‘My cheiromantist, Duchess; I can’t live without him at present.’

      ‘Dear Gladys! you are always so original,’ murmured the Duchess, trying to remember what a cheiromantist really was, and hoping it was not the same as a cheiropodist.

      ‘He comes to see my hand twice a week regularly,’ continued Lady Windermere, ‘and is most interesting about it.’

      ‘Good heavens!’ said the Duchess to herself, ‘he is a sort of cheiropodist after all.  How very dreadful.  I hope he is a foreigner at any rate.  It wouldn’t be quite so bad then.’

      ‘I must certainly introduce him to you.’

      ‘Introduce him!’ cried the Duchess; ‘you don’t mean to say he is here?’ and she began looking about for a small tortoise-shell fan and a very tattered lace shawl, so as to be ready to go at a moment’s notice.

      ‘Of course he is here; I would not dream of giving a party without him.  He tells me I have a pure psychic hand, and that if my thumb had been the least little bit shorter, I should have been a confirmed pessimist, and gone into a convent.’

      ‘Oh, I see!’ said the Duchess, feeling very much relieved; ‘he tells fortunes, I suppose?’

      ‘And misfortunes, too,’ answered Lady Windermere, ‘any amount of them.  Next year, for instance, I am in great danger, both by land and sea, so I am going to live in a balloon, and draw up my dinner in a basket every evening.  It is all written down on my little finger, or on the palm of my hand, I forget which.’

      ‘But surely that is tempting Providence, Gladys.’

      ‘My dear Duchess, surely Providence can resist temptation by this time.  I think every one should have their hands told once a month, so as to know what not to do.  Of course, one does it all the same, but it is so pleasant to be warned.  Now if some one doesn’t go and fetch Mr. Podgers at once, I shall have to go myself.’

      ‘Let me go, Lady Windermere,’ said a tall handsome young man, who was standing by, listening to the conversation with an amused smile.

      ‘Thanks so much, Lord Arthur; but I am afraid you wouldn’t recognise him.’

      ‘If he is as wonderful as you say, Lady Windermere, I couldn’t well miss him. 

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