Oscar Wilde Livres

Nouvelle édition SEMI POCHE Oscar Wilde, l'un des maîtres incontestés du trait cinglant, de la formule assassine et de la maxime meurtrière, aristocrate de l'esprit, dandy provocateur, frappait là où il le fallait, sur la " bonne " société, son hypocrisie et ses masques. Maniant le paradoxe en virtuose, il a passé sa vie à lutter de façon toujours subtile et brillante contre les idées reçues, les convenances ridicules et la bêtise universelle.Recommander aux pauvres d'être économes est à la fois grotesque et insultant. Cela revient à conseiller à un homme qui meurt de faim de manger moins.L'opinion publique est celle de ceux qui n'ont pas d'idées.Il n'y a qu'une chose au monde pire que de faire parler de soi,c'est de ne pas faire parler de soi.Les siècles passent et la société demeure. Les Pensées de cet homme de lettres captivant sont restées plus actuelles que jamais. Il savait comme personne toucher l'être humain dans l'immuabilité même de ses failles et ses réponses en miroir sont à la hauteur de l'intemporel. Un véritable feu d'artifice spirituel.

Der Riese ist ein furchtbar selbstsüchtiger Kerl. So schrecklich, dass es nur Sturm, Hagel und Eis bei ihm aushalten. Ein Kind bringt sein Herz zum Schmelzen und holt die Sonne wieder in den Garten. Mit allen Kindern fröhlich in der Sonne zu spielen wird nun seine liebste Beschäftigung. Wie es dazu kam, erzählt das Kunstmärchen von Oscar Wilde: Der selbstsüchtige Riese.

Le peintre Basil Hallward vient d'achever son meilleur tableau. Invité à se contempler, Dorian Gray, son modèle, fait alors un vœu insensé : que le portait vieillisse à sa place et que lui conserve éternellement sa jeunesse et sa beauté. Quelles ne sont pas sa stupeur et son effroi quand son vœu se réalise ! Le tableau devient alors le miroir de son âme... Le chef-d'œuvre d'Oscar Wilde, illustré par Tony Ross, grand humoriste contemporain.

En 1888, lorsqu'Oscar Wilde publie " Le Prince heureux et autres contes ", il attend de ce livre qu'il assoie une réputation encore mince - et c'est bien en effet son premier succès de librairie. Certains de ces textes sont des contes merveilleux, d'autres mettent en scène des animaux, d'autres encore sont satiriques : pages pleines d'humour où se fait jour souvent le ton joyeusement désabusé qui sera plus tard celui de ses comédies. Cette diversité inventive et brillante se retrouve dans tous les récits des années suivantes qui se moquent du sérieux et se jouent du devoir : histoire policière avec " Le Crime de Lord Arthur Savile ", histoire d'amour avec " Le Fantôme des Canterville ", mais histoires aussi de supercherie avec " Le Millionnaire modèle " et " Le Portrait de Mr W-H ", car la vérité n'est pas plus authentique que l'apparence. Wilde prend le parti de l'ironie et de la satire, et l'élégance l'emporte sur la morale dans un monde où rien n'échappe jamais au truquage - pas même la mort. Ce volume comprend tous les contes et récits de Wilde : " Le Prince heureux et autres contes ", " Une maison de grenades ", " Le Crime de Lord Arthur Savile et autres histoires ", " Le Portrait de Mr W-H "

This book is in French. Martine fell asleep on her storybook. She meets Pierrot, the child bird. Together they undertake a quest peopled with fabulous looking seven magical feathers. A plunge into the world of dream and fantasy. Martine s’est endormie sur son livre de contes. Elle rencontre Pierrot, l’enfant oiseau. Ensemble, ils vont entreprendre une quête peuplée de personnages fabuleux, à la recherche des sept plumes magiques. Un plongeon dans l’univers du rêve et du merveilleux.

Sir Robert Chiltern a vendu un secret d'Etat. L'argent ainsi gagné lui a permis de se lancer dans le monde avec succès et de devenir un homme politique de tout premier plan. Mais personne ne sait d'où il tient sa fortune, à l'exception d'une aventurière qui le fait chanter. En dépeignant ironiquement le mari idéal sous les traits d'un homme politique riche et ambitieux, Wilde souligne la relation entre une institution à ses yeux contestable - le mariage - et les intérêts d'argent et de pouvoir. Mais plus profondément, cette comédie de société joue sur l'écart entre l'irréprochable apparence d'un homme et la réalité que dissimule son masque. Wilde dénonce ainsi les hypocrisies, mais le souci de séduire son public par le mot d'esprit et le paradoxe prime tout, et c'est la grâce de ce langage brillant qui assura le succès de la pièce en 1895.

Cinq contes empreints de merveilleux et de poésie. Style alerte et recherché. Dans l'ensemble, littérature accessible aux jeunes de 10-12 ans. Cependant, deux de ces histoires, "Le rossignol et la rose" et "La fusée remarquable", peuvent échapper à la compréhension des plus jeunes.

L'écrivain irlandais Oscar Wilde incarne l'idéal de l'artiste libre défiant les conventions sociales, tout en étant un auteur de fascinants récits et un observateur spirituel. Reconnu comme un conteur exceptionnel, il savait captiver son auditoire pendant des heures. Le recueil que nous présentons, publié pour la première fois en 1891 sous le titre "Le crime de Lord Arthur Savile et autres histoires", comprend plusieurs récits, dont certains avaient déjà été publiés dans des revues, le plus ancien étant "Le Fantôme de Canterville", paru en 1887. La nouvelle éponyme a été écrite spécifiquement pour cette édition. Wilde aurait affirmé qu'il s'était lui-même livré à un sinistre présage à travers ce récit, une expérience qu'il aurait vécue par la suite. En 1891, après la publication du recueil, une voyante lui aurait prédit qu'il se retrouverait en prison dans trois ans à cause de ses propres actions.

Despite multiple warnings, Horace B. Otis and his family move to Canterville Chase, a sprawling English manor with a dark history and a lingering guest. The Canterville Ghost is an irreverent mix of horror and humor. Canterville Chase is known for its troubled past, previously owned by Sir Simon de Canterville, who mysteriously disappeared after the murder of his wife. When the Otis family buys the property, they begin to notice a supernatural presence. However, unlike previous residents, they are more annoyed than afraid. Sir Simon's scare tactics fall flat, leading to a ghostly identity crisis. The Canterville Ghost subverts the expectations of the horror genre, presenting a family-friendly tale with Gothic elements balanced by slapstick humor. This entertaining story has been adapted across multiple mediums, including radio, film, and television, since its publication in 1887.

Une statue dorée qui pleure à chaudes larmes, un jeune homme à la recherche D'une rose rouge pour séduire celle qu'il aime, un géant qui ne veut pas que les enfants jouent dans son jardin... Pour les petits et les grands, cinq contes pleins de malice et de fantaisie pour découvrir tout le talent d'Oscar Wilde.

Dans tous les livres d'Oscar Wilde, apparaissent ce qu'il est convenu d'appeler des "bons mots", des épigrammes assassines et autres sentences définitives qu'il était tout à fait opportun de réunir. On trouvera donc dans ce livre, grâce à l'élégante traduction de Béatrice Vierne, réponse à toutes les situations de la vie en société, en empruntant à l'un des plus fins causeurs du siècle passé un esprit qui ne doit rien à celui de l'escalier. Qu'on en juge plutôt : "La mode, c'est ce que l'on porte. Ce qui est démodé, c'est ce que portent les autres." "Aucune pose n'est aussi difficile à soutenir que le parfait naturel. " " Il vaut mieux avoir des revenus assurés que d'être fascinant." "La grande supériorité de la France sur l'Angleterre, c'est qu'en France tous les bourgeois veulent être artistes, alors qu'en Angleterre c'est le contraire." "S'aimer soi-même, c'est le début d'une histoire d'amour qui durera une vie entière..." "De nos jours, l'Amérique et nous, nous avons vraiment tout en commun, à l'exception de la langue, bien entendu." "C'est quand vous commencez à rentrer au petit jour que vos péchés, eux, finissent par sortir au grand jour."

D'Oscar Wilde on retient surtout l'esprit fulgurant, les provocations, certains paradoxes, un roman (Le Portrait de Dorian Gray), quelques pièces de théâtre, enfin (surtout ?), sa condamnation aux travaux forcés pour pratiques homosexuelles. Wilde a longtemps pâti de son extraordinaire souci de créer sa propre légende, d'être non pas un créateur de fictions, mais une fiction vivante, et aussi du caractère spectaculaire de sa chute : passé de l'astre au désastre, l'élégant causeur dont les comédies triomphaient sur les scènes de Londres devenait brutalement un faussaire démasqué et un imposteur. Pour avoir voulu faire semblant d'être un homme honnête, il se trouva implicitement accusé d'avoir fait semblant d'être un écrivain. Le public d'aujourd'hui, soumis à un discours moins ou autrement normatif, voit plutôt en lui une victime de l'hypocrisie victorienne. Et l'écrivain de devenir une cause à défendre. Proposant des traductions nouvelles, regroupant la poésie, les contes et histoires, Dorian Gray, De profundis, les essais critiques (méconnus) et le théâtre, ce volume permet enfin à l'Œuvre de se dégager en tant que telle, dans sa cohérence comme dans ses contradictions, au-delà de ce qu'on a longtemps perçu comme un brillant recueil d'épigrammes.

En regardant son portrait peint, le jeune Dorian Gray comprend qu'il sera soumis aux ravages du temps et fait alors un voeu : " si c'était moi qui toujours devais rester jeune, et si cette peinture pouvait vieillir ! ". Un pacte infernal l'entraîne alors vers les gouffres de l'immoralité et du crime. Cet unique roman d'Oscar Wilde tient à la fois du récit fantastique et du conte philosophique.

The Importance of Being Earnest est certainement la plus connue, et la plus populaire des pièces d'Oscar Wilde. C'est un classique, joué aussi bien en Angleterre qu'à l'étranger. Wilde y manie à plaisir tous les ressorts de l'intrigue comique pour construire un étourdissant quiproquo. Il fait naître, par la magie du langage, de superbes personnages - telle la redoutable Tante Augusta - qui avec un cynisme naïf, ou une naïveté cynique, prennent à contre-pied les principes les mieux établis, pour mieux se moquer des turpitudes banales du "beau monde". On découvre avec cette comédie, ce festival de mots d'auteurs, l'un des chefs-d'œuvre de la littérature et de l'humour anglais.

Vivre en accord avec soi-même, être calme, apprendre à relativiser, chercher le bonheur en toute chose... au fil des textes rassemblés dans ce livre on découvre que la sérénité est une quête intemporelle. Depuis l'Antiquité jusqu'à nos jours, les penseurs et les philosophes n'ont cessé de réfléchir à son propos. Dans la sagesse chinoise, la sérénité découle d'une existence simple, en conformité avec la nature. Chez les Stoïciens grecs, elle passe par le renoncement et l'acceptation des choses. Les Epicuriens la lient davantage à la douceur de vivre et au plaisir. Au XVIIIe siècle, Madame du Châtelet l'associait à la connaissance de soi, tandis qu'au XIXe, Rilke affirmait qu'il fallait la chercher dans la solitude... Autant de préceptes philosophiques que chacun est libre d'appliquer pour devenir plus serein, et plus heureux...

Jazyková úroveň - Středně pokročilí Wildovy pohádky nejsou odvozeny z lidových pramenů, ale jsou tvorbou výlučně literární. Ne vždy v nich vítězí dobro a zlo nebývá vždy potrestáno, je však souzeno autorovým výsměchem a ironií. Sbírka obsahuje kromě Šťastného prince dále povídky Salvík a růže, Sobecký obr, Oddaný přítel, Podivuhodná raketa, Mladý král a Dítě hvězdy.

This edition marks the centenary of Oscar Wilde’s death, and is the most complete ever to appear. It contains over 1500 of his letters, and anyone unfamiliar with Wilde as a correspondent will find it packed with unexpected delights. This magnificent collection is a major publishing event. Of all nineteenth-century letter writers Oscar Wilde is, predictably, one of the most sparkling. Wonderfully fluent in style, the letters bear that most familiar of Wildean hallmarks – the lightest of touches for the most serious of subjects. He knew and corresponded with many leading political, literary and artistic figures of the time including William Gladstone, George Curzon, W. B. Yeats, George Bernard Shaw, Frank Harris, Aubrey Beardsley and Max Beerbohm. Wilde’s letters show him at his informal best. They comment openly on his life and his work from the early years of undergraduate friendship, through his year-long lecture tour in America as a striving and ambitious young ‘Professor of Aesthetics’, to the short period of fame and success in the early 1890s followed by his disgrace and imprisonment. The last and most poignant section covers the five long years between his downfall and his early death in exile at forty-six. Even in adversity his humour does not desert him and he is able to share with his readers that greatest of gifts – the ability to smile at one’s own misfortune.

Oscar Wilde was Ireland’s greatest and most inspired wit. The brilliance of his writing is collected in this complete volume. Readers will relish his only novel The Portrait Dorian Gray; all of his plays including A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of being Earnest; essays; poems and stories for both children and adults.

This collection compiles the complete works of Oscar Wilde into a single, high-quality, and affordably priced Kindle volume. It includes all of his plays, such as "Vera; or, The Nihilists," "The Duchess of Padua," "Lady Windermere's Fan," "A Woman of No Importance," "Salomé," "An Ideal Husband," and "The Importance of Being Earnest." Additionally, it features fragments like "A Florentine Tragedy" and "La Sainte Courtisane." The prose section encompasses "A House of Pomegranates," "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime," "The Picture of Dorian Gray," "Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Young," and "Teleny." It also includes the complete poems and non-fiction works, such as "Intentions," "The Soul of Man Under Socialism," "De Profundis," and various essays and lectures on art, literature, and society. Notable essays cover topics like marriage, art criticism, and personal impressions of America, while Wilde's reflections on historical criticism and the decorative arts provide insight into his views on culture. This comprehensive collection is an essential resource for anyone interested in Wilde's literary genius and social commentary.

Treachery, blackmail, theft, and above all, self-interest abound in An Ideal Husband, the first drawing-room comedy to address political sleaze. In Wilde's more light-hearted comedy masterpiece, The Importance of Being Earnest, nothing is sacred. Wilde's dazzling barbed epigrams are directed at all that English high-society holds dear. 'The only pure verbal opera in English' (W.H. Auden), this play presents some of the most celebrated comic scenes in English drama -- Publisher's note on back cover.

"Like two doomed ships that pass in storm We had crossed each other's way: But we made no sign, we said no word, We had no word to say" -Oscar Wilde, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) The poem The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898) by Oscar Wilde, was inspired by the two years he spent in the jail of Reading Gaol, England. There he experienced the hanging of Royal Horse Guards trooper Charles Thomas Wooldridge, convicted for the murder of his wife. This poem, dedicated to Wooldridge, describes not only his execution, but is also an indictment of the Victorian penal system and a plea for reform of prison conditions. This poem, Wilde's last publication, was very successful and assured he had a steady income until his death at a young age in 1900.

This collection contains all the stories, plays and poems by Oscar Wilde, and includes the novel "A Picture of Dorian Gray".

Includes the following works: Novels- The Portrait of Dorian Gray; Plays-Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest; Writings-De Profundis, Critic as Artist, and Phrases and Philosophies for the Use of the Very Young; and selections from Lady Windermere's Fan, An Ideal Husband, and A Woman of No Importance. The Picture of Dorian Gray, Salome and The Importance of Being Earnest are accompanied by Wilde's prison memoirs, poems, and selected correspondence

A volume incorporating much of the best of Wilde's The Critic As Artist; The Picture of Dorian Grey; The Soul of Man Under Socialism; Lady Windermere's Fan; The Importance of Being Ernest; The Ballad of Reading Gaol; The Harlot's House; The Sphinx; The Artist; The House of Judgment; A Few Maxims for the Instruction of the Over Educated.

In print since 1948, this is a single-volume collection of Oscar Wilde's texts. It contains his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray as well as his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters. Illustrated with many photographs, the book includes introductions to each section by Wilde's grandon, Merlin Holoand, Owen Dudley Edwards, Declan Kibertd and Terence Brown. A comprehensive bibliography of works by and about Oscar Wilde together with a chronological table of his life and work are also included.

Wilde's works are suffused with his aestheticism, brilliant craftsmanship, legendary wit and, ultimately, his tragic muse. He wrote tender fairy stories for children employing all his grace, artistry and wit, of which the best-known is The Happy Prince. Counterpoints to this were his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, which shocked and outraged many readers of his day, and his stories for adults which exhibited his fascination with the relations between serene art and decadent life. Wilde took London by storm with his plays, particularly his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest. His essays - in particular De Profundis- and his Ballad of Reading Gaol, both written after his release from prison, strikingly break the bounds of his usual expressive range. His other essays and poems are all included in this comprehensive collection of the works of one of the most exciting writers of the late nineteenth century.

This volume contains everything Wilde wrote in dramatic form including his masterpiece The Importance of Being Earnest -- printed here in its usual three-act form, but with an appendix containing the best material from the original four-act version. Also included are his three 'problem plays', Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband, as well as his once-banned Salomé and several other little-known but fascinating dramas.

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This authoritative edition was formerly published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combination of Wilde's poetry and prose short stories, plays, critical dialogues and his only novel - to give the essence of his work and thinking.

A once selfish giant welcomes the children to his previously forbidden garden to play and is eventually rewarded by an unusual tiny child.

Flamboyant and controversial, Oscar Wilde was a dazzling personality, a master of wit, and a dramatic genius whose sparkling comedies contain some of the most brilliant dialogue ever written for the English stage. Here in one volume are his immensely popular novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray; his last literary work, “The Ballad of Reading Gaol,” a product of his own prison experience; and four complete plays: Lady Windermere’s Fan, his first dramatic success, An Ideal Husband, which pokes fun at conventional morality, The Importance of Being Earnest, his finest comedy, and Salomé, a portrait of uncontrollable love originally written in French and faithfully translated by Richard Ellmann.Every selection appears in its entirety–a marvelous collection of outstanding works by the incomparable Oscar Wilde, who’s been aptly called “a lord of language” by Max Beerbohm.

Selected poems, prose fiction, plays, lectures and essays, and letters. With contemporary photographs and illustrations.

The graded readers in this series aim to provide learners of English with a pleasurable reading experience. The series, which should appeal to a wide age range, exposes students to a variety of styles and kinds of English and the books contain puzzles and exercises based on the text.

One of a series designed as an introduction to literature. It is graded into six levels, and each book contains an introduction and exercises. It is designed for students of English as a foreign or as a second language, and for reluctant readers. This book contains two stories by Oscar Wilde.

Reprint. Originally published: New York: Random House, [1969]

"I have the simplest tastes," remarked Oscar Wilde. "I am always satisfied with the best." In this superlative collection of quotations by the great Irish playwright and wit, readers will find the very best of Wilde's scintillating comments on art, human nature, morals, society, politics, history, and numerous other subjects. Epigrams, aphorisms, and other bon mots gleaned from Wilde's enduringly popular plays, essays, and conversation offer amusing, thought-provoking observations that resonate with truth and profundity beneath their comic surface.Widely acknowledged as the most brilliant talker of his age, Wilde once explained to André Gide, "I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works." This fine collection of nearly 400 quotes, organized by category, contains quotations from both his works and his conversation, including gems from his personal life with which even devotees may be unfamiliar. The result is a splendid introduction to Wilde's mind and personality, embodied in a feast of the English language's most brilliant and perceptive witticisms.

This Vintage edition of The Plays of Oscar Wilde contains the plays that made Wilde one of the most important dramatists of his time, including The Importance of Being Earnest, one of the great works of modern literature. Oscar Wilde's plays demonstrate once again why their author must be seen as both an inaugurator and a master of modernism. In his best work, the subversive insights embedded in his wit continue to challenge our common assumptions. Wilde's ability to unsettle and startle us anew with his radical vision of the artifice inherent in the self's construction makes him our contemporary. This edition is introduced by John Lahr, author of Prick Up Your Ears: The Biography of Joe Orton. The plays included are Lady Windermere's Fan, Salome, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband, and The Importance of Being Earnest.

Einem Fischer geht eine wunderschöne Meerjungfrau ins Netz. Er verliebt sich in sie und will sie heiraten. Doch der Preis dafür ist seine Seele. Ist seine Liebe wirklich so groß, dass er ohne Seele leben kann?

Between 1892 and 1895, Oscar Wilde's drawing-room comedies Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest made his name as a playwright who fearlessly mocked the hypocrisy and snobbery of Victorian society and took gleeful delight in appearing to trivialize its most sacred institutions. With its premiere on Valentine's Day 1895, The Importance of Being Earnest – a hilarious comedy of mistaken identities and coruscating language – was a phenomenal success, but its run was cut short prematurely by Wilde's court case and subsequent incarceration, and the play was not published until 1899, after Wilde had been released from prison. Also including the powerful Salome, originally written in French and banned by the British censor, this collection displays Wilde at his provocative and witty best, and demonstrates why he was a playwright who delighted audiences and infuriated critics in equal measure.

A collection of works by Wilde, describing his thoughts on literature and social principles. It includes "The Soul of Man", a manifesto on Individualism, and "De Profundis", an attempt at self-analysis. Also two letters on prison injustices, and "The Ballad of Reading Gaol".

Witty and buoyant comedy of manners is brilliantly plotted from its effervescent first act to its hilarious denouement, and filled with some of literature's most famous epigrams. Widely considered Wilde's most perfect work, the play is reprinted here from an authoritative early British edition. Note to the Dover Edition.

Playwright, novelist, essayist, poet and epigrammatist, Oscar Wilde was Ireland's greatest and most inspired wit. Renowned equally for his espousal of aestheticism and art for art's sake, he became notorious for his affairs with Lord Alfred Douglas and others. Today he is remembered for the brilliance of his writing, and this complete edition of his works contains all his plays, his only novel, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, as well as his essays, poems and stories for children, The Happy Prince and Other Tales, and his more worldly stories for adults, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories. The juxtaposition of his jeux d'esprits such as The Soul of Man under Socialism and The Portrait of Mr. W.H. contrast sharply with The Ballad of Reading Gaol and De Profundis, while Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of No Importance, An Ideal Husband and The Importance of Being Earnest still enchant readers and theatre audiences today.

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Oscar Wilde's well-turned phrases and spontaneous insults still cause much amusement and admiration. This book contains quotes most of which are taken from Wilde's plays, novels and essays.

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More information to be announced soon on this forthcoming title from Penguin USA.

Includes The Portrait of Mr W H, Wilde's defence of Dorian Gray, reviews, and the writings from Intentions (1891): The Decay of Lying, Pen, Pencil, Poison, and The Critic as Artist. This volume presents Wilde as a deep and serious reader of literature and philosophy, and an eloquent thinker about society and art. schovat popis

This Penguin collection contains Oscar Wilde's five wittiest and best known plays. He himself described Lady Windermere's Fan his first great stage success, as 'one of those modern drawing-room plays with pink lampshades'. Its combination of polished social drama and corruscatingly with dialogue was repeated in A Woman of No Importance and An Ideal Husband both of which were enthusiastically received by the public but savaged, much to Wilde's delight, by affronted critics. His greatest play, The Importance of Being Earnest was first produced in 1895. Wilde wrote of it : 'It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubblue of fancy, and it has its philosophy... that we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously, and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality.'This volume also includes Lord Alfred Douglas's translation of Salomé a short drama which Wilde wrote in French.

Двуезични разкази на английски и български език.Тази книга на издателство "Веси" е предназначена за читатели, които са начинаещи в обучението си по английски език.Тук читателят може да се запознае с английския текст в оригинал, без адаптации, като на нечетните страници е преводът на български. Той е направен с цел максимална точност спрямо оригинала на четната страница.

This volume features the works of Oscar Wilde, an influential Irish writer and poet. His only novel, a classic of gothic horror fiction, follows Dorian Gray, a young man whose beauty captivates artist Basil Hallward. Basil becomes infatuated with Dorian, believing his beauty inspires a new artistic vision. Upon meeting Lord Henry Wotton, Dorian is seduced by Henry's hedonistic worldview, which prioritizes beauty and sensory fulfillment. Fearing the loss of his youth, Dorian wishes to sell his soul so that his portrait ages instead of him. This wish leads him into a life of debauchery, with the portrait reflecting the toll of his sins. The collection also includes Wilde's short stories and plays, showcasing his storytelling prowess and stylistic range. Notable selections are "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime," "The Canterville Ghost," and "The Importance of Being Earnest," which humorously critiques Victorian society through characters who adopt false identities. Additionally, "De Profundis," a letter written during Wilde's imprisonment, expresses his disillusionment with Lord Alfred Douglas. "The Ballad of Reading Gaol," composed after his release, memorializes a fellow inmate facing execution. Wilde believed art should guide life by pursuing beauty, emphasizing the importance of the soul and individual self-understanding.

Contains De Profundis, The Ballad of Reading Gaol, The Soul of Man under Socialism, The Decay of Lying and The Critic as Artist.

More than 1,000 ripostes, paradoxes, wisecracks: "Work is the curse of the drinking classes," "I can resist everything except temptation," etc.

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime, almost a short novel, is a small masterpiece of gentle cynicism where poison, explosive watches, and ultimately the crime are essential preludes to the marriage between the protagonist and a sweet girl. In The Canterville Ghost, a brilliant tale filled with humorous epiphanies, one of the key themes of Wilde's thought appears suddenly: the possibility of redemption. The prophet of neopaganism weighs the exact weight of sin and discovers the mysterious paths of redemption and forgiveness. The Sphinx Without a Secret is a brief narrative with a Maupassant flavor, where all of Wilde's masculinity explodes, while The Model Millionaire is a sort of salon anecdote, pleasing to the Victorian bourgeoisie, told with inimitable grace.

Spellbound before his own portrait, Dorian Gray utters a fateful wish. In exchange for eternal youth he gives his soul, to be corrupted by the malign influence of his mentor, the aesthete and hedonist Lord Henry Wotton.

Set in Padua, this five-act tragedy follows Guido, a young man grappling with his lineage and the murder of his father by the Duke of Padua. Initially driven by revenge, Guido's feelings shift when he falls in love with Beatrice, the Duchess. The narrative unfolds with themes of betrayal and love, culminating in a tragic misunderstanding. Although written for actress Mary Anderson, the play has rarely been performed and is often overshadowed by Wilde's more celebrated works. Critics note its melodramatic tone and Shakespearean influences, yet some appreciate its artistic merit.

Oscar Wilde, glamorous and notorious, more famous as a playwright or prisoner than as a poet, invites readers of his verse to meet an unknown and intimate figure.

For the first time in one volume, this complete collection of all the short fiction Oscar Wilde published contains such social and literary parodies as "Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" and "The Canterville Ghost;" such well-known fairy tales as "The Happy Prince," "The Young King," and "The Fisherman and his Soul;" an imaginary portrait of the dedicatee of Shakespeare's Sonnets entitled "The Portrait of Mr. W.H.;" and the parables Wilde referred to as "Poems in Prose," including "The Artist," "The House of Judgment," and "The Teacher of Wisdom."

A beautifully illustrated collection of Oscar Wilde's favourite children's tales known and loved throughout the world. It includes: The Happy Prince The Selfish Giant The Nightingale and the Rose This gorgeous production brings Wilde's magical stories to a whole new generation.

Oscar Wilde is one of the most quotable of authors, as this collection of extracts from his prose clearly demonstrates. It also illustrates the breadth of interest, from the delightfully comic to the profoundly serious, of this supremely talented but ultimately tragic figure.

These special fairy tales, which Oscar Wilde made up for his own sons, include 'The Happy Prince', who was not as happy as he seemed; 'The Selfish Giant', who learned to love little children; 'The Star Child', who suffered bitter trials when he rejected his parents. . . . Often whimsical and sometimes sad, they all shine with poetry and magic.

'Happy Prince' brings the story of a small swallow that, interrupting their journey toward the sun, decides to help a Prince to bring the happiness to your kingdom.'The Nightingale and The Rose', tells reader about a bird singer that believes much more of love than a boy.

This riverrun edition includes the hitherto uncollected works by one of the twentieth century's most celebrated writers.

A thrillingly spooky tale based upon the story by Oscar Wilde for children growing in reading confidence and ability. The Canterville Ghost has been scaring away new residents in his castle for 500 years, but when the Otis family move in it becomes clear they are just as determined to make him leave. But who will succeed?

These two essays by Oscar Wilde are true literary gems and are part of the collection Intentions from 1891. The Critic as Artist (1890), originally titled The True Function and Value of Criticism, is written in the form of a dialogue between two friends on a starry night. Gilbert (who embodies Wilde's ideas) and Ernest discuss the meaning of art criticism. Wilde argues that all art is immoral and all thought is dangerous; criticism is more creative than creation; the highest criticism reveals in the work of art what the artist did not put there; the true critic is unjust, insincere, and irrational. For Wilde, art and criticism have a subversive value and stand in opposition to society. This leads to the second essay, The Soul of Man Under Socialism (1891), where Wilde expresses, perhaps in response to George Bernard Shaw's socialism, his anarchistic ideas (as he admired the Russian anarchist Kropotkin): the abolition of private property, but also of marriage; an attack on all forms of government and all forms of economic organization (including collectivism).

Oscar Wilde is arguably the most quoted man in history. He arrived in New York with nothing to declare but his genius in 1882. On his return to England he had London at his feet. In 1895 he was charged and convicted of homosexual activities. He was born in Dublin in October 1854 and died a broken man in exile in Paris on 30th November 1900. He always said his memory would live on.The importance of being well quoted. The quotes cover Wilde's life from when he was a man sitting on his throne to when he went into the gutter.Full of dazzling with from his plays, stories, poems, essays and letters. For business and everyday life, "nothing succeeds like excess". Quote your genius. - the ForewordNB: Incorrectly there is no apostrophe in the word 'Worlds' [sic] in the title so the book is catalogued accordingly.

‘The truth is rarely pure and never simple. Modern life would be very tedious if it were either, and modern literature a complete impossibility.’ Is lying simply an uncomfortable truth about life or something to be celebrated? In these dazzlingly witty pages we find deceptions of all kinds. From false names to imaginary friends to fictitious engagements, Wilde proves himself to be a connoisseur of creativity and argues that lying may be an art form in itself. Selected from The Importance of Being Earnest, The Decay of Lying and The Picture of Dorian Gray VINTAGE MINIS: GREAT MINDS. BIG IDEAS. LITTLE BOOKS. A series of short books by the world’s greatest writers on the experiences that make us human Also in the Vintage Minis series: Murder by Arthur Conan Doyle Power by William Shakespeare Jealousy by Marcel Proust Ghosts by M. R. James