Not Wilde's best work, I think. Of the five stories collected here, I was indifferent to two of them: "The Canterville Ghost" is a bit silly and fractured, two genres stuck not very well together, and "The Sphinx Without a Secret" is very slight. The remainder were more likeable, but they still don't encourage me to repeated readings, I think, although the ending to "The Portrait of Mr. W.H." is probably the most compelling piece of writing in the entire book.