What are Oscar Wilde's best short stories?

The Happy Prince, yes certainly the best. It's so moving and delicately told. I also like the Rose and the Nightingale and The Selfish Giant. I enjoyed discovering that side of Oscar Wilde when I first read them. Actually, they're all very good. read more

I enjoyed discovering that side of Oscar Wilde when I first read them. Actually, they're all very good. I also can recall Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and The Sphinx Without a Secret quite well. read more

Wilde wrote quite a few short stories, many of them for children: The Birthday of the Infanta » A charming, bitter-sweet tale criticising the behavior of the upper classes. read more

Wilde's short stories were writen at a time when he had begun to moderate his literary ambitions with financial needs. He therefore started to work in a number of popularist sub-genres - detective fiction, ghost stories, fairy tales - a market opened up by recently reduced printing costs and used to great effect by the likes of Arthur Conan Doyle. read more