Oscar Wilde - Libros y biografía

"Please, speak softly, we might be overheard,"Two college friends run into each other in Paris and one tells the other of a mysterious woman he's been seeing. She sets appointments to meet him and doesn't...

L’Âme de l'homme sous le socialisme d’Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) fut publié pour la première fois à Londres dans la Fortnightly Review, en 1891. L’auteur est devenu célèbre l’année précédente, avec la parution...

Based on a story from the Bible, 'Salomé' provoked such outrage that it was banned from the British stage for a number of years. However, fiercely defended by academics for its literary worth, that law...

Literature loves a strong, protective mother. Whilst Molly Weasley, Catelyn Stark and Miss Honey might have had their own specific worries, none of these were fighting the prejudice facing Mrs Arbuthnot....

"I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train."Jack Worthing is an important and respected person in Hertfordshire. Being a guardian to a young girl...

A searing satire on the British class system, social hypocrisy, and keeping up appearances, 'Lady Windemere's Fan' is one of Wilde's best-loved plays. Such is its popularity that it has been adapted for...

'Are there not books that can make us live more in one single hour than life can make us live in a score of shameful years?' In this brilliant collection of essays, Oscar Wilde talks about art, literature,...

"Women have a wonderful instinct about things. They can discover everything except the obvious."Sir Robert Chiltern is a moral and upstanding politician with a wife who adores and idolizes him, but when...

"And holding wave and wind in boy's despitePeered from his dripping seat across the wet and stormy night."Charmides is a beautiful and epic poem rooted in Greek mythology. Whether prose or poetry, drama...

"One is impressed in America, but not favourably impressed, by the inordinate size of everything. The country seems to try to bully one into a belief in its power by its impressive bigness."In 1881 Oscar...

De Profundis Aus der Tiefe (nach Psalm 130) Oscar Wilde schreibt über sein Leben am Tiefpunkt desselben einen Brief 'Epistel in Gefangenschaft und Fesseln' 'Epistola: In Carcere et Vinculis' . Er sitzt...

Con la sua prosa intuitiva ma raffinata, lo stile sferzante e sfrontato, l'uso costante di aforismi celebri e paradossi, Wilde è probabilmente uno degli autori più amati in ogni angolo del mondo. E tutti...

The chief advantage that would result from the establishment of Socialism is, undoubtedly, the fact that Socialism would relieve us from that sordid necessity of living for others which, in the present...

"SALOMÉ" has made the author's name a household word wherever the English language is not spoken. Few English plays have such a peculiar history. Written in French in 1892 it was in full rehearsal by...

It is thought that a selection from Oscar Wilde’s early verses may be of interest to a large public at present familiar only with the always popular Ballad of Reading Gaol, also included in this volume....

A «Balada do Cárcere de Reading» é uma longa carta escrita por Oscar Wilde durante os dois anos em que esteve preso sob a acusação de homossexualidade. Nesta obra, Wilde divaga sobre a importância do...

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...

"The Picture of Dorian Gray" is an philosophical novel by writer and playwright Oscar Wilde. Dorian Gray is the subject of a full-length portrait in oil by Basil Hallward, an artist who is impressed and...

Se esiste un ambito nel quale il talento di Oscar Wilde toccava vertici assoluti fino a superare sé stesso, era quello per la frase ad effetto. E questa strepitosa raccolta di aforismi è una lettura deliziosa,...

Oltre ai romanzi, oltre agli aforismi, oltre agli scandali che ne segnarono la vita e ne indirizzarono la produzione artistica, Wilde fu anche un eccellente scrittore di fiabe. In questo caso leggerete...

Em «De Profundis», uma carta para Lord Douglas Queensberry escrita na prisão, Wilde dá a conhecer um pouco do esteticismo, teoria artística da defesa da arte pela arte, e analisa a sua relação com os...

Guido [Taking a letter from his pocket and reading it.] ‘The hour noon; the city, Padua; the place, the market; and the day, Saint Philip’s Day.’ Ascanio And what of the man, how shall we know him? Guido...

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...

Oscar Wilde's story of a fashionable young man who sells his soul for eternal youth and beauty is one of his most popular works. Written in Wilde's characteristically dazzling manner, full of stinging...

A House of Pomegranates is a collection of whimisical short stories by Oscar Wilde. This collections includes the following tales: The Young King, The Birthday of the Infanta, The Fisherman and his Soul,...

An ideal husband is an Oscar Wilde's 1895 drama that revolves around blackmail and political corruption and touches the themes of public and private honor.

The Happy Prince and Other Tales (sometimes called The Happy Prince and Other Stories) is a collection of stories for children by Oscar Wilde first published in May 1888. It contains five stories, "The...

Publicado em 1891, no ensaio A decadência da mentira, Oscar Wilde põe em cena dois personagens que dialogam sobre arte: Viviano e Cyrillo. Viviano apresenta ao amigo algumas das ideias que compõem um...

Romanzo comico che narra l'esilarante convivenza della famiglia Otis, i nuovi inquini del castello dei Canterville con lo spettro di Sir Simon di Canterville, per nulla impressionati dall'inquilino gestiranno...

Die Hauptfigur, der reiche und schöne Dorian Gray, besitzt ein Porträt, das statt seiner altert und in das sich die Spuren seiner Sünden einschreiben. Während Gray immer maßloser und grausamer wird, bleibt...