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This book is a classic anthology of Wilde's fairy tales, including his popular classics such as "The Nightingale and the Rose", "The Happy Prince", "The Giant's Garden", "The Faithful Friend", "The Famous Rocket" and "The Star Child". These works were translated by Lin Huiyin, a talented woman during the Republic of China. Lin Huiyin's writing is beautiful, natural, full of aura, and full of quiet feminine beauty. The complete English original text is appended to the translation, allowing readers to feel the charm of the language of the talented British writer Oscar Wilde.

Turn any page and your mood may be changed. Because as soon as you open it, you will laugh unconsciously. This is "Charming Temperament". This book is a book of golden quotes, which selects 180 golden quotes by Oscar Wilde and was translated by the famous translator Li Yuyao. The selected sentences are all the essence of Oscar Wilde's writing, humorous and interesting, making people laugh. Behind these short and exquisite maxims, Wilde has a charming temperament of his own.

This book selects three classic works of "Wilde's tragic aesthetics". The first "Collection of Wilde's Fairy Tales": these nine fairy tales put Wilde into the world of fairy tale masters. The story and metaphor of "The Nightingale and the Rose" are known to the world. The second "The Picture of Dorian Gray": It is Wilde's only novel and the evidence that sent Wilde to prison. The third book, "From the Depths": a long letter to his lover that exposes the soul like scraping bones and flesh, is also the last work in Wilde's life, and was named "100 greatest non-fiction works". These three works are not only Wilde's masterpieces in the literary sense, but also "fateful" works that connect Wilde's life. Readers, please follow the short introduction and translation postscript that are interspersed between each work. In this way, from fairy tales to long letters, you can gradually penetrate into his ideological world step by step, and read all the heartbreak of his life in one book.

In 1895, Wilde went to court with the Marquess of Queensberry, the father of his former lover Percy, and was sentenced to prison and ruined. While in prison, Wilde wrote this famous long letter in literary history to Percy, "From the Depths," in which he recounted the pain Percy had caused him, discussed Jesus, love, and literature, and seemed to have expectations for the future of the two of them.