"The crime of Lord Arthur Savile is all grace Beyond Good and Evil. This is the story of a murder, but the fact is perpetrated in a world that, by their very frivolity, is no less real than the deliberately fantastic thousand and one nights [...]. The theme of The Canterville Ghost belongs to the Gothic novel, but fortunately for the reader, the treatment is not. In this fun story, Americans do not take seriously the ghost, and neither readers nor Wilde take seriously the Americans. The Happy Prince, The Nightingale and the Rose and The Selfish Giant are fairy tales, not designed to genuinely Grimm, but a sentimental manner reminiscent of Hans Christian Andersen, but imbued with that melancholy irony is peculiar attribute Oscar Wilde. "Jorge Luis Borges