Wilde, Oscar (1854 - 1900) | Oscar Wilde (Story Date May 1887)
OSCAR WILDE (STORY DATE MAY 1887)
SOURCE: Wilde, Oscar. "The Sphinx without a Secret." In 100 Ghastly Little Ghost Stories, edited by Stefan Dziemianowicz, Robert Weinberg, and Martin H. Greenberg, pp. 438-44. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1993.
The following story was originally published under the title "Lady Alroy" in Saunder's Irish Daily News in May, 1887. Wilde changed the title to "The Sphinx without a Secret" when the story was collected and published in Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories in 1891.
One afternoon I was sitting outside the Café de la Paix, watching the splendour and shabbiness of Parisian life, and wondering over my vermouth at the strange panorama of pride and poverty that was passing before me, when I heard someone call my name. I turned round, and saw Lord Murchison. We had not met since we had been at college together, nearly ten years before, so I was...
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