<p>Oscar Wilde's 'A House of Pomegranates' is a crystalline collection of fairy tales, steeped in both sumptuous imagery and pensive moral undertones. The literary style of these narratives is emblematic of Wilde's aestheticism, focusing on beauty and art for art's sake, 'A House of Pomegranates' unfolds with a florid prose that echoes both the Victorian fascination with orientalism and the decadent movement. Each story in the collection is a mos...