Bøger af Oscar Wilde

He was a Grecian lad, who coming home With pulpy figs and wine from Sicily Stood at his galley's prow, and let the foam Blow through his crisp brown curls unconsciously, And holding wave and wind in boy's despite Peered from his dripping seat across the wet and stormy night.

Oscar Wilde, an Irish Writer, Playwright and renowned poet. He was born on 16th Oct 1854 and was died on 30th Nov 1900. His famous work includes: The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890), The Importance of Being Earnest (1895), The Ballad of Reading Gaol (1898), and De Profundis (written in 1897 & published in 1905)

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En su única novela, el divino Oscar Wilde puso al día el mito de Fausto. En este caso, la víctima es Dorian Gray, un bello y joven presuntuoso a quien un amigo hace un retrato al óleo. Cuando Dorian trabe amistad con lord Henry Wotton, un cínico filósofo, éste le convencerá de que sus más valiosas posesiones son su belleza y su juventud. Y a partir de ahí, su deseo de que su retrato envejezca mientras él permanezca joven se hace realidad. Estamos, simple y llanamente, ante uno de los libros más bellos e ingeniosos de todos los tiempos.

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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Lord Arthur Savile's Crime is a short story by Oscar Wilde. This story was first published in The Court and Society Review, in late 1887. The main character, Lord Arthur Savile, is introduced by Lady Windermere to Mr Septimus R. Podgers, a chiromantist, who reads his palm and tells him that it is his destiny to be a murderer. Lord Arthur wants to marry, but decides he has no right to do so until he has committed the murder. His first attempted murder victim is his elderly Aunt Clementina, who suffers from heartburn. Pretending it is medicine, Lord Arthur gives her a capsule of poison, telling her to take it only when she has an attack of heartburn. Reading a telegram in Venice some time later, he finds that she has died and victoriously returns to London to learn that she has bequeathed him some property. Sorting through the inheritance, his future wife Sybil Merton finds the poison pill, untouched; thus Lord Arthur's aunt died from natural causes and he finds himself in need of a new victim. After some deliberation, he obtains a bomb from a friendly German anarchist, disguised as a carriage-clock, and sends it anonymously to a distant relative, the Dean of Chichester. When the bomb goes off, however, the only damage done seems like a novelty trick, and the Dean's son spends his afternoons making tiny, harmless explosions with the clock. In despair, Lord Arthur believes that his marriage plans are doomed, only to encounter the same palm-reader who had told his fortune late at night on the bank of the River Thames. Realising the best possible outcome, he pushes the man off a parapet into the river where he dies. A verdict of suicide is returned at the inquest and Lord Arthur happily goes on to marry. In a slight twist, the palmister is denounced as a fraud, leaving it up to the reader as to whether the story is a result of free will or destiny. The story was the basis of the second part of the three-part 1943 film Flesh and Fantasy.

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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?

A statue of a long dead prince befriends a swallow who helps the Prince to alleviate the suffering of the townspeople. The Selfish Giant owns a beautiful garden which he wants to keep for himself. A young child melts his cold heart and brings him happiness.

"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.

A menos que se sea rico, no sirve de nada ser una persona encantadora. Lo romántico es privilegio de los ricos, no profesión de los desempleados. Los pobres debieran ser prácticos y prosaicos. Vale más tener una renta permanente que ser fascinante. Estas son las grandes verdades de la vida moderna que Hughie Erskine nunca comprendió. ¡Pobre Hughie! Intelectualmente, hemos de admitir, no era muy notable. Nunca dijo en su vida una cosa brillante, ni siquiera una cosa mal intencionada. Pero era, en cambio, asombrosamente bien parecido, con su pelo castaño rizado, su perfil bien recortado y sus ojos grises. Era tan popular entre los hombres como entre las mujeres, y tenía todas las cualidades, menos la de hacer dinero.

In The Soul of Man Wilde argues that, under capitalism, "the majority of people spoil their lives by an unhealthy and exaggerated altruism-are forced, indeed, so to spoil them": instead of realising their true talents, they waste their time solving the social problems caused by capitalism, without taking their common cause away. Thus, caring people "seriously and very sentimentally set themselves to the task of remedying the evils that they see in poverty but their remedies do not cure the disease: they merely prolong it" because, as Wilde puts it, "the proper aim is to try and reconstruct society on such a basis that poverty will be impossible."

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A House of Pomegranates is a collection of classic fairy tales, written by Oscar Wilde, that was published in 1891 as a second collection for The Happy Prince and Other Tales (1888). Wilde once said that this fairy tale collection was "intended neither for the British child nor the British public." The Young King The Young King tells the story of the illegitimate shepherd son of the recently dead king's daughter of an unnamed country. Being his only heir, the sixteen-year-old is brought to the palace to await his accession. There, he is in awe of the splendor of his new home and anxiously awaits his new crown, scepter, and robe which are soon to be delivered to him for his coronation in the morning. The Birthday of the Infanta The Birthday of the Infanta is about a hunchbacked dwarf, found in the woods by courtiers of the King of Spain. The hunchback's father sells him to the palace for the amusement of the king's daughter, the Infanta, on her twelfth birthday. The Fisherman and his Soul In The Fisherman and his Soul, a young Fisherman finds a Mermaid and wants nothing more than to marry her, but he cannot, for one cannot live underwater if one has a soul. He goes to his priest, but the priest tells him his soul is his most precious possession, and the soulless mermen are lost. He tries to sell it to merchants, who tell him it is not worth anything. He goes to a witch, who tells him his soul is his shadow, and says how it can be cut away with a viper-skin knife after he dances with her. The Star-Child The Star-Child is the story of an infant boy found abandoned in the woods by a poor woodcutter, who pities him and takes him in. He grows up to be exceedingly beautiful, but vain, cruel, and arrogant, believing himself to be the divine child of the stars. He lords over the other children, who follow him devotedly, and takes pleasure in torturing the forest animals and village beggars alike.

"Das Bildnis des Dorian Gray" from Oscar Wilde. Irischer Schriftsteller (1854-1900).

El protagonista de la historia es la estatua dorada de un príncipe llena de valiosos adornos, que se encuentra en lo alto de una columna desde donde puede ver toda la ciudad; y una golondrina, que ha retrasado su migración a Egipto por haberse enamorado de un junco. La golondrina se posa sobre la estatua y ve que el príncipe está llorando a causa de las injusticias que puede observar desde su posición, pues cuando vivía siempre le hicieron creer que todo el mundo era feliz y le habían ocultado que también había gente que tenía problemas, y ahora desde allí arriba podía ver la triste realidad, realidad que es confirmada por la golondrina de la cual se hace gran amigo de ella día a día, pues le ayudara en su misión de ir ayudar a los más necesitados. Entonces le pide a la golondrina que arranque y entregue a los más necesitados las joyas que le adornan. El ave así lo empieza a hacer y al final se queda con el príncipe ayudándolo en su misión de ayudar a los más desfavorecidos, distribuyendo las joyas hasta que al final la estatua queda completamente desprovista del oro y adornos. Pero el invierno recrudece y la golondrina, a causa del frío, muere besando al príncipe en los labios. Al ver esto, el corazón de la estatua se rompe. Al poco tiempo, el alcalde de la ciudad observó el estado deteriorado de la estatua, y da orden de que sea retirada y fundida. Sin embargo, el corazón del príncipe no se funde en el horno, y lo arrojan al basural, donde descansa también el cadáver de la golondrina. Estos son tomados al cielo por un ángel que les ha considerado las dos cosas más preciosas de la ciudad por Dios, para que puedan vivir para siempre en su ciudad de oro y el jardín del paraíso.