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LORD ARTHUR - SAVILE'S CRIME
Author profile: (Oscar Fingall O'Flahertie Wills Wilde). Oscar Wild was an Irish author,
born in
He studied at
His first published work, Poems (1881), was well received. In 1884 he married Constance Lloyd, and they had two sons, Cyril and Vivian.
Later he began writing for some periodicals, but his active literary career began with the publication of Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories (1891) and two collections of fairy tales, The Happy Prince (1888) and The House of Pomegranates (1892). In 1891 his famous novel Picture of Dorian Gray appeared.
Wilde's stories and essays were well received, but his creative genius found its highest expression in his plays-Lady Windermere's Fan (1892), A Woman of No Importance (1893), An Ideal Husband (1895), and his masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).
In the nineties, he was accused of homosexuality by the Marquis of Queensbury, father of Wilde's intimate, Lord Alfred Douglas. For this motive Wilde was sentenced to two years' hard labour.
Released in 1897, he
lived in
First edition: This story was written by Oscar Wild in 1891 and the first edition for the publishing house "Petrini Editori" appeared in 2001.
Narrative modes: The book is structured in eight, short chapters. In the text we can find lots of dialogues and ample descriptive parts.
Narrator: In the texts we have a third person narrator who tells us the course of facts.
Setting of the story: The story takes place in noble houses of rich English people, during the Easter season. The year isn't specified.
Description of the main characters:
Lord Arthur is the protagonist of this story; he is tall, thin, he has blond hair and dresses smart clothes. He's very curious and he believes in the supernatural.
Mr. Podgers is Lady Windermere's chiromantist and he's the cause of Lord Arthur's troubles. He is a little, stout man with a funny bald head.
The others characters in the story are: Lady
Windermere, Sybil Merton (Arthur's partner), Lady Clementina Beauchamp, Mr.
Pestle (the chemists), Mr. Mansfield (Lady Clem's lawyer), The Dean of
Plot: This book talk about a strange event happened to Lord Arthur.
The first scenes of the story take place in Lady Windermere's house, during the last reception before Easter. To the party it was present also a chiromantist, Mr. Podgers, who made curious lots of people included Lord Arthur, a young and rich man.
Mr. Podgers read Lord Arthur's hand and saw that he was going to kill a person. Lord Arthur, very shocked, decided to carry out his fate before the marriage with Sybil, his future wife.
He wrote down a list of all his friends and relatives and he chose Lady Clementina Beauchamp, a dear old lady who was his own second cousin on his mother's side.
He decided to use poison for his murder, because it was a safe, sure and quiet method and he gave her a pill of aconitine.
Unfortunately Lady Clementina died of natural death so Lord Arthur was obliged to choose another person to kill: his uncle, the Dean of Chichester, a collector of clocks. He presented him an explosive one, but also this murder failed. After this second failure Lord Arthur decided not to try again to kill anyone.
One night, walking on
The story ends with the marriage with his dear fiancée Sybil.
Message of the book: Nowadays there are lots of false magicians and chiromantists who take only your money and make you very sad. Be careful and don't listen to this people!
Personal opinion: The narration is very interesting and the book is written with an easy and comprehensible language. The story is very mysterious and fascinating and the author is very skilled in to create situations of suspense.
I really like these kinds of stories and Lord Arthur Savile's crime is a book that I have very appreciated. It's really amusing and exciting!
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