Bøger af Oscar Wilde

A collection of Tarn & Beck: Parts One-Five, these adventurous, extraordinary stories will liven up your day as Tarn, Beck, and their friends journey and explore their world, looking for fun, love, and excitement, but getting into danger and extreme situations. With magic, monsters, and mayhem also plaguing them, can Tarn, Beck, and their friends survive their quests?The Cursed CoinBeck's struggled with being the son of a rat-catcher all his life, especially when his father Cedric vanished years ago. Fired from his job and fed up, Beck wants to leave the city he grew up in. But he needs money to start a new life, so he goes to the graveyard to dig up the gold coins his father buried, claiming they were cursed.The Fariy ReelNutmeg and Cecily seek help from Eric the Relic Collector, who has his own theme song, to find Tarn and Beck. Meanwhile, Beck's swept up in the enchantment of the dancing fairies. Can Tarn save him, or will the vampires have their way with them?The Wizard's Spell-BookWith Martin the satyr's guidance, Tarn & Beck go see a healer to discuss their woes and problems. But when things go awry, can they crack the wizard's spell-book and save themselves from disaster?The Importance of Being Tarn and BeckBeck wakes up onstage, trapped in the role of Algernon Moncrieff in an enchanted production of Oscar Wilde's 'The Importance of Being Earnest'. He's compelled at times to say lines he barely understands, and he's soon joined by friends, family, and enemies, also stuck playing the other parts.The Werewolf and the ChimeraTarn arrives in Baxton to wait for Beck. Yet a werewolf has been spotted in the hills, and Tarn joins the hunt to escape his own pursuit.

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It has constantly been made a subject of reproach against artists and men of letters that they are lacking in wholeness and completeness of nature. As a rule this must necessarily be so. That very concentration of vision and intensity of purpose which is the characteristic of the artistic temperament is in itself a mode of limitation. To those who are preoccupied with the beauty of form nothing else seems of much importance. Yet there are many exceptions to this rule.

Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an extremely popular Irish writer and poet who wrote in different forms throughout his career and became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the strange circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. At the turn of the 1890s, Wilde refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a license. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London. Wilde reached the height of his fame and success with The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).

The Picture of Dorian Gray is Oscar Wilde's only novel, but what a novel! Dorian Gray is a handsome young man who commissions a painting of himself by an artist named Basil Hallward. The artist is infatuated with Dorian, thinking the young man's beauty has brought about a major improvement in his art. When Dorian meets Lord Henry Wotton, a friend of the artist's, Dorian comes to love Lord Henry's worldview: that the only things worth pursuing are beauty, and a hedonistic abandon to please the senses. Dorian, in a whimsical moment, says he'd love to sell his soul to have Basil's painting of him age instead of Dorian himself. That wish is granted, and Dorian lives a life of debauchery, the results of which are reflected in the painting. But no matter how well you play the game, there's always a price to pay...

A esa chica la había visto en un carruaje amarillo y que desde ese momento le había fascinado instantáneamente y que no pudo dejar de pensar en ella y que después se estuvo paseando por esa calle para ver si podía verla de nuevo. Una semana después la vio. La primera vez que le habló fue un mal comienzo, según él, también se sentía estúpidamente enamorado. Le pidió que si podría volver a verla y ella con un poco de duda le dijo que a las cinco menos cuatro. El día de la cita llegó puntualmente pero le dijo que lady Abroy ya había salido, le mandó una carta a su casa pero ella le pidió que no lo volviera a hacer y que se las mandara a otra dirección, era tan misteriosa que lord Murchison pensaba que estaba bajo la posesión de algún hombre pero después abandonó esa idea. Un après-midi, j'étais assis à la terrasse du café de la Paix, contemplant la splendeur et les dessous de la vie parisienne. Tout en prenant mon vermouth, j'étudiais avec curiosité l'étrange panorama où l'orgueil et la pauvreté défilaient devant moi, quand je m'entendis appeler par mon nom. Je fis demi-tour et je me vis en face de lord Murchison. Nous ne nous étions pas revus depuis que nous avions été au collège ensemble, il y avait dix ans de cela. Aussi fus-je charmé de cette rencontre. Nous échangeâmes une chaude poignée de main. À Oxford, nous avions été grands amis. Je l'aimais énormé-ment. Il était si bon, si plein d'entrain, si plein d'honneur. Nous disions souvent de lui qu'il serait le meilleur garçon du monde sans son penchant à dire toujours la vérité, mais je crois que réellement nous ne l'en admirions que davantage pour sa franchise. Je le trouvai bien un peu changé.

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Excerpt: ... their egotism, and add to it many other egos. They are forced to have more than one life. They become more highly organised, and to be highly organised is, I should fancy, the object of man's existence. Besides, every experience is of value, and whatever one may say against marriage it is certainly an experience. Those who read the symbol do so at their peril. I never talk during music

This book contains: Lord Arthur Savile's crime The Canterville ghost The happy prince The model millionaire

J'avais dîné avec Erskine dans sa jolie petite maison de Bird Cage Walk et nous étions assis dans sa bibliothèque, buvant notre café et fumant des cigarettes, quand nous en vînmes à causer des faux en littérature. Maintenant je ne me souviens plus ce qui nous amena à un sujet aussi bizarre en un pareil moment, mais je sais que nous eûmes une longue discussion au sujet de Macpherson, Ireland (William Henry, 1777-1835) prétendit avoir trouvé des manuscrits inédits de Shakespeare qu'il publia à partir de 1795. Il finit par avouer son invention. (Note du traducteur.) et de Chatterton et qu'en ce qui concerne ce dernier, j'insistai sur ce point que ses prétendus faux étaient simplement le résultat d'un désir artistique de parfaite ressemblance, que nous n'avons nul droit de marchander à un artiste les conditions dans lesquelles il veut présenter son oeuvre et que tout art étant à un certain degré une sorte de jeu, une tentative de réaliser sa propre personnalité sur quelque plan imaginatif en dehors de la portée des accidents et des limites de la vie réelle; - censurer un artiste pour un pastiche, c'était confondre un problème de morale et un problème d'esthétique.

This book contains: The Canterville ghost Lord Arthur Savile's crime The happy prince The model millionaire

Join Fred, the lone monster, on his epic adventures as he faces peril, befriends others, and learns what it truly means to be a hero. Fred demonstrates that our deeds, not our outward appearance, are what characterize us through his heroic efforts to defend villages from robbers and slay a flaming monster. Follow him on his quest for self-knowledge to observe how he transforms into a real hero in the eyes of people close to him.

Lady Windermere's Fan, A Play About a Good Woman is a four-act comedy by Oscar Wilde, first produced 22 February 1892 at the St James's Theatre in London. The play was first published in 1893. Like many of Wilde's comedies, it bitingly satirizes the morals of society. The story concerns Lady Windermere, who suspects that her husband is having an affair with another woman. She confronts him with it but although he denies it, he invites the other woman, Mrs Erlynne, to his wife's birthday ball. Angered by her husband's supposed unfaithfulness, Lady Windermere decides to leave her husband for another lover. After discovering what has transpired, Mrs Erlynne follows Lady Windermere and attempts to persuade her to return to her husband and in the course of this, Mrs Erlynne is discovered in a compromising position. It is then revealed Mrs Erlynne is Lady Windermere's mother, who abandoned her family twenty years before the time the play is set. Mrs Erlynne sacrifices herself and her reputation to save her daughter's marriage. The best known line of the play sums up the central theme: We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Oscar Wilde añade al personaje de Salomé todo un argumento que trastoca la historia evangélica de Jokanaan. En la Biblia, Salomé pedía la muerte de Juan por instigación de su madre Herodías, a la que Jokanaan reprochaba convivir con Herodes a pesar de estar casada con Filipo, hermano de Herodes. En la obra de Wilde, en cambio, Salomé está enamorada (obsesivamente incluso) de Jokanaan (Juan), quien rechaza su amor. La petición de que sea decapitado se produce, pues, por despecho. Tras la muerte, en una combinación de eros y thanatos muy propia de la época (en la misma obra un soldado sirio, enamorado de Salomé, comete suicidio), Salomé besa los labios de la cabeza cortada de Jokanaan. Herodes, enamorado a su vez de Salomé, ordena matarla.

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OSCAR WILDE Salome - Übersetzt von Hedwig Lachmann - Erstdruck: Verlag: Bln.-Paris, Fürstner 1905 - Neugesetzte Ausgabe, 1. Aulage 2018 Narraboth: "Wie schön ist die Prinzessin Salome heute abend!" Page (unruhig): "Du siehst sie immer an. ... Es ist gefährlich, Menschen auf diese Art anzusehn. Schreckliches kann geschehn." LIWI Literatur- und Wissenschaftsverlag Göttingen

Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an extremely popular Irish writer and poet who wrote in different forms throughout his career and became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the strange circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. At the turn of the 1890s, Wilde refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a license. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London. Wilde reached the height of his fame and success with The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).

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Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an extremely popular Irish writer and poet who wrote in different forms throughout his career and became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the strange circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. At the turn of the 1890s, Wilde refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a license. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London. Wilde reached the height of his fame and success with The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).

Oscar Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an extremely popular Irish writer and poet who wrote in different forms throughout his career and became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. Today he is remembered for his epigrams, plays and the strange circumstances of his imprisonment, followed by his early death. At the turn of the 1890s, Wilde refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French in Paris but it was refused a license. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London. Wilde reached the height of his fame and success with The Importance of Being Earnest (1895).

Arts and Crafts By Oscar Wilde Poet and dramatist, son of Sir William Wilde, the eminent surgeon, was born at Dublin, and educated there at Trinity College and at Oxford. Known for his barbed wit, he was one of the most successful playwrights of late Victorian London, and one of the greatest celebrities of his day. He was one of the founders of the modern cult of the æsthetic. Among his writings are Poems [1881], The Picture of Dorian Gray, a novel, and several plays, including Lady Windermere's Fan, A Woman of no Importance, and The Importance of being Earnest. We are delighted to publish this classic book as part of our extensive Classic Library collection. Many of the books in our collection have been out of print for decades, and therefore have not been accessible to the general public. The aim of our publishing program is to facilitate rapid access to this vast reservoir literature, and our view is that this is a significant literary work, which deserves to be brought back into print after many decades. The contents of the vast majority of titles in the Classic Library have been scanned from the original works. To ensure a high quality product, each title has been meticulously hand curated by our staff. Our philosophy has been guided by a desire to provide the reader with a book that is as close as possible to ownership of the original work. We hope that you will enjoy this wonderful classic work, and that for you it becomes an enriching experience.

Lorsque M. Hiram B. Otis, le ministre américain, acheta Canterville Chase, tout le monde lui dit qu'il commettait une folie car il ne faisait aucun doute que les lieux étaient hantés. En vérité, lord Canterville lui-même, homme pointilleux à l'excès sur les questions d'honneur, avait jugé de son devoir de mentionner le fait à M. Otis quand ils en étaient venus à discuter des conditions de vente. - Nous avons préféré ne pas y habiter nous-mêmes, dit lord Canterville, depuis que ma grand-tante, la duchesse douairière de Bolton, a été prise d'une peur panique dont elle ne s'est jamais vraiment remise en voyant apparaître sur ses épaules deux mains de squelette pendant qu'elle s'habillait pour dîner et il est de mon devoir de vous dire, M. Otis, que le fantôme a été vu par plusieurs membres vivants de ma famille, aussi bien que par le recteur de la paroisse, le révérend Augustus Dampier, diplômé de King's Collège à Cambridge.

Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde is a classic Irish poetry collection that includes the following titles: The Ballad Of Reading Gaol Ave Imperatrix To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems Magdalen Walks Theocritus - A Villanelle Greece Portia Fabien Dei Franchi Phedre Sonnet On Hearing The Dies Irae Sung In The Sistine Chapel Ave Maria Gratia Plena Libertatis Sacra Fames Roses And Rue From 'The Garden Of Eros' The Harlot's House From 'The Burden Of Itys' Flower of Love Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (16 October 1854 - 30 November 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of London's most popular playwrights in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams and plays, his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray, as well as the circumstances of his imprisonment and early death. Wilde's parents were successful Anglo-Irish intellectuals in Dublin. Their son became fluent in French and German early in life. At university, Wilde read Greats; he proved himself to be an outstanding classicist, first at Dublin, then at Oxford. He became known for his involvement in the rising philosophy of aestheticism, led by two of his tutors, Walter Pater and John Ruskin. After university, Wilde moved to London into fashionable cultural and social circles. As a spokesman for aestheticism, he tried his hand at various literary activities: he published a book of poems, lectured in the United States and Canada on the new "English Renaissance in Art", and then returned to London where he worked prolifically as a journalist. Known for his biting wit, flamboyant dress and glittering conversational skill, Wilde became one of the best-known personalities of his day. At the turn of the 1890s, he refined his ideas about the supremacy of art in a series of dialogues and essays, and incorporated themes of decadence, duplicity, and beauty into what would be his only novel, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890). The opportunity to construct aesthetic details precisely, and combine them with larger social themes, drew Wilde to write drama. He wrote Salome (1891) in French while in Paris but it was refused a licence for England due to an absolute prohibition on the portrayal of Biblical subjects on the English stage. Unperturbed, Wilde produced four society comedies in the early 1890s, which made him one of the most successful playwrights of late-Victorian London. At the height of his fame and success, while The Importance of Being Earnest (1895) was still being performed in London, Wilde had the Marquess of Queensberry prosecuted for criminal libel. The Marquess was the father of Wilde's lover, Lord Alfred Douglas. The libel trial unearthed evidence that caused Wilde to drop his charges and led to his own arrest and trial for gross indecency with men. After two more trials he was convicted and sentenced to two years' hard labour, the maximum penalty, and was jailed from 1895 to 1897. During his last year in prison, he wrote De Profundis (published posthumously in 1905), a long letter which discusses his spiritual journey through his trials, forming a dark counterpoint to his earlier philosophy of pleasure. Upon his release, he left immediately for France, never to return to Ireland or Britain. There he wrote his last work, The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), a long poem commemorating the harsh rhythms of prison life. He died destitute in Paris at the age of 46.

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Dorian fait la connaissance de Lord Henry, dit Harry, un ami de Basil Hallward, un peintre reconnu. Conscient de la fascination et de la perversion que Lord Henry pourrait avoir pour son idéal de beauté, cette nature simple et belle, Basil demande à Lord Henry de ne pas tenter de le corrompre. Mais Dorian se laisse séduire par les théories sur la jeunesse et le plaisir de ce nouvel ami qui le révèle à lui-même en le flattant: Un nouvel hédonisme [...] Vous pourriez en être le symbole visible. Avec votre personnalité, il n'y a rien que vous ne puissiez faire . Va naître dès lors en lui une profonde jalousie à l'égard de son propre portrait peint par Basil Hallward. Il formule le souhait que le tableau vieillisse à sa place pour pouvoir garder lui-même sa beauté d'adolescent. Si je demeurais toujours jeune et que le portrait vieillisse à ma place ! Je donnerais tout, tout pour qu'il en soit ainsi. Il n'est rien au monde que je ne donnerais. Je donnerais mon âme ! . Par la suite le jeune homme tombe amoureux d'une comédienne dont le jeu le fascine, Sibyl Vane, et lui promet le mariage. Mais son amour pour Dorian empêche Sibyl d'incarner ses personnages comme elle le faisait auparavant et son jeu devient très mauvais, ce que peuvent constater Basil et Lord Henry que Dorian a emmenés avec lui au théâtre. Profondément déçu et humilié, Dorian répudie Sibyl et la quitte brutalement, la laissant effondrée. En rentrant il remarque sur le portrait une expression de cruauté qu'il ne lui connaissait pas. Il commence alors à soupçonner que son souhait insensé pourrait s'être réalisé. Le lendemain, il apprend par Harry le suicide de Sibyl. Étonnamment, il ne ressent qu'une peine superficielle à l'annonce de cette mort: Cependant je dois reconnaître que cet événement ne m'a pas ému autant qu'il l'aurait dû. Il m'apparaît comme le dénouement sublime d'une pièce étonnante. Il a toute l'effrayante beauté d'une tragédie grecque, une tragédie où j'ai joué un grand rôle mais d'où je sors indemne. . C'est un moment charnière du roman, le moment où le retour en arrière n'est plus possible pour Dorian, bien qu'il ne le sache pas encore. Le portrait a commencé à changer: l'âme de Dorian n'est plus celle du jeune homme innocent qui pouvait éprouver de la compassion pour ses semblables. Pour éviter la découverte de son terrible secret, il enferme le tableau dans une ancienne salle d'étude et se plonge dans la lecture d'un mystérieux roman que lui offre Lord Henry (bien que son titre ne soit jamais cité, on peut reconnaître À rebours de Joris-Karl Huysmans). Le style de vie de Dorian change alors radicalement. Montrant toujours une façade policée devant ses pairs, il court les bouges les plus infâmes de Londres, à la recherche de plaisirs de plus en plus raffinés. Il s'entoure d'objets rares et précieux, pierreries, parfums, tapisseries... Le tableau petit à petit s'enlaidit, à cause des signes de l'âge mais surtout des marques physiques du péché. Le jeune homme (qui n'en est plus vraiment un) est de plus en plus obsédé par le tableau, renonçant à ses résidences secondaires, inquiet dès qu'il le quitte. Il vient d'ailleurs souvent vérifier la dégradation physique du portrait, avec une certaine jouissance car il continue à ressembler, lui, au jeune homme innocent qu'il était encore peu auparavant, et cette apparence immarcescible à elle seule lui permet de démentir toutes les folles rumeurs qui courent à son sujet.

Gloriously adapted and illustrated by the winner of the British Book Awards Nibbie for Children's Illustrated Book of the Year and the Waterstones Children's Book Prize.Swallow is a homeless boy who's just arrived in the big city. He settles down for the night under the golden and bejewelled statue of the Happy Prince, yet when he looks up he sees the statue is weeping. What could a golden Happy Prince possibly have to feel sad about?But from his view high above the city, the prince can see the suffering of the poor. He asks little Swallow to take his jewels and gold to the people who need them most. Can the statue and the boy find a way to bring happiness to everyone in the city?

"We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars." Oscar Wilde's Lady Windemere's Fan is a four-act comedy of manners set in London. It centers around the character of Lady Windermere who suspects that her husband may be having an affair with an older beautiful woman named Mrs Erlynne. Instead of leaving the other woman, the husband pays no heed to his wife's complaints. He even invites Mrs Erlynne to attend a celebration in their house, which eventually pushes his wife to leave him and follow another man who has always been expressing his admiration for her. When Mrs Erlynne learns the story, she goes to Lady Windermere and tries to persuade her to return to her husband. In the climactic scene of the play, Mrs Erlynne follows her to her admirer's room and informs her that she is actually her own mother. It turns out that, many years ago, Mrs Erlynne herself has gone through an imbroglio and divorced, being the victim of social prejudices against women. Lord Windermere has actually been hiding the truth from everybody, including his wife, in an attempt to help Mrs Erlynne to recover a respectable place in the London society.

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