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Welcome to Wilde Short Fiction.

This website is an initiative to address one of the main problems for students of Oscar Wilde's short fiction: a lack of primary sources to study their evolution and contexts. On this website you can find, in its current form, detailed bibliographical descriptions as well as eighty (80) manual transcriptions of contemporary reviews on The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888), Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891), and A House of Pomegranates (1891). It is, by far, the largest collection of this kind, offering students of Wilde's short fiction unprecedented opportunities to discuss the reception of these collections, or how these contributed to establishing Wilde's reputation as an author in the minds of late Victorian readers and critics.

The website is freely accessible for everybody. Use our powerful search functionality to effortlessly find, filter, and sort through all reviews. Download (filtered) reviews directly from the site or from the GitHub repository. Explore the bibliography section, which provides comprehensive resources and insights into the field. If you can, please consider contributing additional materials to enrich the collection and/or share this website!