Lord Arthur Savile's Crime - Softcover

Wilde, Oscar

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1540855171 ISBN 13: 9781540855176

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

This story was first published in The Court and Society Review, in late 1887. The main character, Lord Arthur Savile, is introduced by Lady Windermere to Mr Septimus R. Podgers, a chiromantist, who reads his palm and tells him that it is his destiny to be a murderer. Lord Arthur wants to marry, but decides he has no right to do so until he has committed the murder. His first attempted murder victim is his elderly Aunt Clementina, who suffers from heartburn. Pretending it is medicine, Lord Arthur gives her a capsule of poison, telling her to take it only when she has an attack of heartburn. Reading a telegram in Venice some time later, he finds that she has died and victoriously returns to London to learn that she has bequeathed him some property.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1540855171
• ISBN 13: 9781540855176
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 170
• Editor: Sir Angels