Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Sto »

The ever-quotable Oscar Wilde once said, "Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it." From his outsize celebrity in Victorian London to his authorship of fiction, drama, and poetry that uniquely captured his era, it's fair to say that Wilde succeeded on both counts.

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime is a masterpiece of polished cynicism, in which poison, explosive clocks and finally murder forerun married bliss. Two of Oscar Wilde's best-loved stories for children are also included, together with The Canteville Ghost and The Portrait of MR. W.H., a brilliant piece of scholarly detection.