Fairy tales, ghost stories, detective fiction, comedies of manners: the stories collected in this volume made Oscar Wilde known as a storyteller and showed his skill in a wide range of styles, captured in unforgettable texts such as "The Canterville Ghost" ', 'The Happy Prince', 'The Nightingale and the Rose' or 'The Selfish Giant'. These small masterpieces convey the author's brilliant artistic vision, while exploring various moral issues of his time through a pleasant combination of wit and sentiment.