Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Sphinx Without a Secret | TBD | Oscar Wilde | Buy |
| 2 | Lord Arthur Saville’s Crime | TBD | Oscar Wilde | Buy |
| 3 | The Nightingale and the Rose | TBD | Oscar Wilde | Buy |
| 4 | The Selfish Giant | TBD | Oscar Wilde | Buy |
| 5 | The Remarkable Rocket | TBD | Oscar Wilde | Buy |
| 6 | The Devoted Friend | TBD | Oscar Wilde | Buy |
| 7 | The Birthday of the Infanta | TBD | Oscar Wilde | Buy |
| 8 | Star-Child | TBD | Oscar Wilde | Buy |
| 9 | The Soul of Man Under Socialism | TBD | Oscar Wilde | Buy |
| 10 | The Young King | TBD | Oscar Wilde | Buy |
| 11 | The Fisherman & His Soul | TBD | Oscar Wilde | Buy |
| 12 | A Florentine Tragedy | 1906 | Oscar Wilde | Buy |
Oscar Wilde wrote some of the finest short fiction of the Victorian era. His fairy tales, including The Selfish Giant, The Nightingale and the Rose, and The Happy Prince, are deceptively simple on the surface but carry real emotional weight. They’re stories about sacrifice, beauty, and the cruelty that people inflict without thinking, told in language that reads like poetry.
His non-fairy-tale stories lean toward comedy and satire. Lord Arthur Savile’s Crime follows a man who learns from a palm reader that he’s destined to commit murder, so he decides to get it out of the way before his wedding. The Sphinx Without a Secret is a brief, wry tale about a woman whose only mystery is that she has no mystery at all. Wilde could write both heartbreak and farce, often in the same paragraph.